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Money laundering / plausibly deniable embezzlement?

1. Inform people to whom you want to transfer money that you're about to push the market up. They buy a wide range of tech stocks (or other derivatives that rely on tech stocks)

2. Make some insane trades that push up tech stocks for a few days

3. Your targets sell, taking a hefty profit

You've effectively transferred money out of your hedge fund to these other people; if the "area of effect" is large enough, it should be difficult to tell who was the target. Don't know if this is efficient or plausible.




Laundering is needed when money is dirty. In this case, money is not dirty. Embezzlement is a stupid move on the part of any billionaires. They can collect management fees instead, and be safe.


If it's that easy, just do it for yourself to profit.


I doubt gwd has access to a tremendous pile of other people's money to experiment with, other considerations aside.




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