The problem with big money is you can't just pocket the cash. You show up at the Porsche dealer with $100,000 in cash and they'll tell you to come back with check drawn an ordinary account. Try to buy that mansion with a $1,000,000 cash or deposit a giant chunk of cash at Chas. Schwab and they'll tell you sorry, they don't handle cash. That's why drug lords are found with pallets of cash; over some amount it becomes a burden. Trouble is, banks keep records and they ask questions, too, and they can spot bullshit from across the street. You can get your payoffs in bullion but it gets hard to use, too. You need to convert it into cash! And not everyone handles gold, so again, it's not the money, it's the amount. That's why crooks gotta be banked, too. But that paper trail never goes away, and bank examiners know what funny looks like on bank statements. There are only just so many ways to account for big money and the people who are paid to spot crooked know all the ins and outs and it jumps right off the account statement right in the face of forensic accountants. All big money accounts have either a SSN or EIN (Employer Identification Number) and the accountants can search that in the time it takes to key in 9 digits and hit enter. There are ratios for every kind of company and individual account and the accountants have all of them memorized. They do some math in their head and if something ain't right, that account goes on their shit list. The Biden accounts are almost comically bad...
Where crooks go wrong is they think they are smarter than the cops and don't need to do the hard work. Some are, but they use those smarts to do all the laborious things necessary to blend into the background, hiding in plain sight. The dumb crooks like the Bidens tell themselves that they'll just pretend everything is A-OK and the powers that be will forget about them and move on with business. If your business is moving money and you ignore the law, the law will knock on YOUR door... Remember, there's bank examiners on the other end of every transaction, and no banker wants to have an agent walk into his branch and tell him that they have traced 176 crooked transactions inbound to his branch, but they can't find his required reports to them of flagged transactions... At that point he's all but already fired, and needs to explain why he shouldn't be considered a paid conspirator & facilitator. There is a system in place, it has too many paper trails for someone to beat the system very long without doing all the laborious things necessary, and everybody up & down those many, many paper trails is legally held responsible to do their part. Or get caught not doing it.
FBI & DOJ, are you listening?