What is the purpose of explicitly mentioning this? Is it just to troll? Like obviously you want to be smart with money laundering and whatnot, but why bother mentioning this at all as an official agency?
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makes it easier to go after organized crime or large drug enterprises. The feds need stuff like warrants and witnesses for normal crime things. But tax evasion is an easy way to start an investigation.
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People don’t report their illegal income as “crime money” on their tax returns. They’ll write it down as normal business expenses.
Now this is just hypothetical law stuff, but the IRS is under no obligation apparently to report criminal money to any other federal agency. The reason for that is the 5th amendment, where people have a constitutional right against self-incrimination. Since reporting income is mandatory, you’re obligated to say where you go the money. But you have a constitutional right to not be forced into incriminating yourself, so hypothetically you’re not supposed to get investigated/arrested on the sole basis of self-reported illegal things on your tax return. Since that would be evidence based on a forced self-incrimination.
Because the mob and the CIA/FBI were working together and bungling evidence so no trial could be held. The rest of the government knew they had to do something otherwise the Al guy was going to be the functional warlord of America. So make it a crime to not report your criminal money, arrest you for breaking the law $100 million times, and boom, the bad guy is in jail for 10000 years now.
