450: Frank Maderal | The Dirty Money Behind Illicit Gold Smuggling
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Frank Maderal is a litigator and trial attorney (as featured on Netflix's Dirty Money) whose work has given him an intimate knowledge of illicit gold mining and smuggling operations that wreak environmental, social, and economic havoc on a global scale.
What We Discuss with Frank Maderal:- Why gold is such an ideal, sought-after medium by criminal enterprises for laundering billions of dollars every year.
- How unethical methods of gold mining -- both illegal and quasi-legal -- have a devastating, irreparable impact on the environments in which they operate and the people who live there.
- Money laundering 101: how it works on a global scale, what gives it away to law enforcement, and why gold makes its trail harder to trace even when the evidence is seemingly hiding in plain sight.
- Why otherwise on-the-level gold traders are increasingly turning to illegal means of aggregation (whether knowingly or not).
- What law enforcement is doing to make the illicit gold trade a more difficult business for its top-level players and deliberately ignorant enablers.
- And much more...
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| 0:09.3 | Dark hotEx is inherently contraband. |
| 0:11.7 | There's no excuse to having it, and there's really no defense. |
| 0:16.5 | Whereas if you have gold, it's not inherently contraband. |
| 0:20.3 | It's not inherently illegal. |
| 0:21.5 | There's no reason to summarily arrest someone who's possessing it. |
| 0:26.0 | So gold is a commodity that gets imported, as long as you declare it. |
| 0:31.2 | As long as you declare it, file a custom declaration. |
| 0:34.2 | There is no amount of gold that you are not allowed to enter the United States with. |
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| 1:00.4 | correspond in arms dealer money laundering expert. |
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| 1:15.2 | Today, a lot going on. |
| 1:16.7 | In the past decade and a half, global gold consumption has risen by almost a thousand |
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