Steve Robinson

But for the Chinese national and the Chinese woman from Massachusetts who needed to move around, do a gift transfer for an illicit marijuana grow, he was more than happy to sign on the dotted line.

Probably just a coincidence, right?

I'm sure it's just a coincidence for sure.

But the more I learned about how the real estate world works and how lawyers factor in, the more I began to suspect that there was probably a different, more lucrative money-making opportunity in play here.

And it gets back to what we were talking about earlier and what we just grabbed some images of, of MT law.

the law firm in Massachusetts that was named in the Leah Foley's indictment.

MT Law appears to be just your run-of-the-mill law firm.

Their entire staff is Chinese, except for their one, you know, American-looking... One of these doesn't look like the others.

Yeah, just the white gorilla there, who I'm sure attends functions on their behalf.

But there's a technique called seasoning the money that I learned about, which may be old hat for people who are familiar with money laundering and how it works.

But seasoning the money involves a trusted lawyer

And it's a money laundering technique.

It's been used by white guys going back decades.

If you've got a cash heavy business like a coin op laundry or a car wash, and you've got all this cash, but you don't want to pay taxes on it, you want to make a real estate investment with it, what you do is instead of trying to bring it to the bank or to a real estate agent to buy property,

You bring it to your attorney and you tell your attorney to deposit it in his IOLTA account or his interest on lawyers.

There's different words for it in other states, but it's an account that lawyers hold money from multiple clients in a single pot and it earns interest, but it's kind of like protected under statute.

I've got a bag of drug proceeds with $250,000 on it.

I bring it to my lawyer, maybe his name is Mr. Mills, and I ask him to deposit it in his trust account.

And then the following day, I come in and I say, hey, can you draw a bank check out for a quarter of a million dollars and make it out to real estate company X?

Real estate company X can't accept a bag full of cash, but they can sure as hell accept that check.