A Ponzi scheme, in essence, is a means of financial manipulation.

In fact, many financial instruments, without supervision, can easily become tools in the hands of scammers.

You must know that when things like "finance" and "stocks" first appeared in this world, they were actually not far from "cheating money".

Therefore, with the development of society, the legal restrictions on financial behavior are becoming more and more stringent.

After all, as someone said, the fastest way to make a person rich is often written in the Criminal Code.

However, when it comes to the United States, a country that has been manipulated by Wall Street financiers, there is something different

Since Wall Street controls the entire country, it is natural that it wants to regulate itself as little as possible, especially when they use some of the more dangerous methods.

As a result, many of the methods that are illegal in other countries are just stepping on the line and legal in the United States.

This difference in standards has led to an endless stream of financial fraud cases such as Ponzi schemes in the United States.

From the huge net worth of Hollywood stars to the pension insurance of ordinary wage earners, they are all in the hunt range of financial scammers.

Perhaps this is the price of "freedom"!

And compared to the people who are deceived, the scammers are much more savvy.

In order to prevent the huge amount of money in their hands from being forcibly recovered by the court after the car overturns one day, they generally choose to spend the money as soon as possible.

Among them, there are two types

One is to spend on your own enjoyment.

Although, if the money is turned into real estate or clothes, the court can also seal it and recover it. But at least what eats into the stomach and squirts out of the body, no one can do anything.

For scammers, it's really "money is not spent, and it is invalid when it expires".

The second is the well-known type of money laundering.

This method is not only used by scammers, but also by various other bigwigs with illegal income.

From Capitol Hill in Washington to the gangster neighborhoods of Detroit, there are supporters of this behavior.

Unlike the first way of pure enjoyment, which cannot be recovered, the money spent on laundered money will eventually return to the crooks and the bigwigs.

By then, however, the money had become legal income, and even the courts could not recover it.

It's like the money scammer cheats out of it, of course, it is illegal income, but if he uses the money to buy a hamburger, the person who sells the hamburger makes serious money.

But what if the burger seller then donated a portion of his earnings to a charitable foundation founded in the name of a relative of the scammer?

This still seems to be a legitimate income process, and in modern society, there is no possibility of the Nine Clans......

Of course, the Tao is one foot high, the magic is one foot high, and the evolution is relative.

Since grey income earners can launder money, it is only natural that the government and the courts will also look into ways to trace them.

In fact, in a modern society where there are bills for all kinds of consumption and income, many simple methods of money laundering are no longer effective.

The police can follow the bills and recover the unreasonable income.

But this is in the early stage, there are bills to follow.

In many industries where small capital flows are fast and cannot be effectively regulated, the police and the courts are powerless.

After all, even if there are bills, tracking requires sufficient accounting staff.

If there are too many, no one can do anything.

And among these industries that people can't help it, the entertainment industry accounts for a large proportion.

Games, movies, and even some other unregulated Internet industries were once the hardest hit areas for money laundering by black tycoons.

This is true not only for the United States, but also across the Pacific.

In Hollywood, the situation was even more serious at one time.

Several of Hollywood's seven major studios have been rumored to have gangster backgrounds.

Essentially, they used to launder money for the gangsters.

Of course, this is slowly dying out as the FBI and the IRS tighten their surveillance.

However, for those who are pure financial offenders, this kind of regulation is not very useful.

No way, who makes the American financiers have a high status?

Before he overturned, people could even be Soros or even Buffett-like images, and they were completely legitimate and rich.

Even if the IRS has its own independent court, what can you do with others until the evidence is found?

Therefore, financial scammers can still come to Hollywood to try to launder money after scamming huge sums of money.

But in reality, there are not many such people.

There's a weird reason for that

Scammers are afraid of being hacked.

After all, the showbiz likes to turn profits into losses by making accounts, and then specializes in making money for investors outside the circle, which is famous.

Strong investors can be supervised by reliable personnel, and gangsters have threats of violence, but they can make the soft eggs in the entertainment industry honest.

But what do scammers have?

They are worth hundreds of millions even when they don't overturn, but because they involve secrets, there are not so many people who can be trusted, what can they use to supervise the old fritters in the entertainment industry?

Therefore, there are not many financial scammers who dare to come to Hollywood to invest or launder money.

But when Charlotte was preparing for "The Sixth Sense", she came across one

Martin Channing, a wealthy New York tycoon and a Wall Street tycoon.

He has been very interested in the film industry in the past two years, so when Charlotte was preparing for "The Sixth Sense", he once met Charlotte and wanted to invest.

Then Charlotte saw through his true face at a glance.

After all, Charlotte, as a master of trickery, is very familiar with the breath of her kind.

In particular, the other party also hinted that Charlotte could also spend a large amount of money to rush the box office for "The Sixth Sense" after the movie was released.

This proposal completely made Charlotte see through him.

You must know that although the filmmakers themselves pay for box office fraud, it often happens.

But in essence, doing so is either for the sake of face, or to deliberately raise the box office and play a role in publicity, so as to attract more audiences into the pit.

By the way, this kind of gameplay is not uncommon in the best-selling list of Apple games in later generations.

However, a box office rush plan like Martin Channing, which seems to be regardless of the cost and directly takes care of everything, is obviously not in line with the above logic.

After all, if you charge too much money yourself, you will lose money.

Unless the goods are just trying to launder money at a certain cost.

Charlotte was the first to realize the possibility.

And in the subsequent contact, he clarified his judgment.

In the end, he did not accept Martin John's investment, because he knew that once the other party's scam was exposed in the future, it would definitely affect his investment projects.

Even if the income from "The Sixth Sense" will not be recovered by the court, the reputational damage is ironclad.

Charlotte is not one of those producers and executives of big studios in the pure sense of the word, and it is still quite troublesome for him as a director to lose his reputation.

Moreover, "The Sixth Sense" was not short of investment at the time, and Charlotte had no need to make trouble for herself at all.

However, on the other hand, Charlotte picked up Martin Channing's idea again.