knowingly committed acts of money laundering, ill-gotten

 Valuable as Art, but Priceless as a Tool to Launder Money

By PATRICIA COHEN

Increasingly, the authorities say, criminals are using expensive artworks - bought and sold in secret and with little regulation - to hide ill-gotten profits.

TEPCO officials explained the decision was made to free up storage space within the plant grounds for water contaminated with much higher levels of radiation.
This is the first time TEPCO has knowingly discharged contaminated water into the ocean.


Lloyd's of London, the insurer, will not be on the hook for paying for the legal defense of the jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford after all. A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Lloyd's had demonstrated a substantial likelihood that Mr. Stanford "knowingly committed acts of money laundering," providing an out to the insurer.


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A new statement from inside the old Administration, backed by General Colin Powell himself, claims that President Bush and Vice President Cheney kept innocent men in Guantanamo so they wouldn't harm their push for war in Iraq.

launder

Pronunciation: /ˈlɔːndə/

Definition of launder

verb

[with object]

• 1wash and iron (clothes or linen):he wasn’t used to laundering his own bed linen (as adjective, with submodifier laundered)freshly laundered sheets

• 2 informal conceal the origins of (money obtained illegally) by transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses: $123,000 had been laundered through Geneva bank accounts
• alter (information) to make it appear more acceptable:we began to notice attempts to launder the data retrospectively

noun

• a trough for holding or conveying water, especially (in mining) one used for washing ore.
• a channel for conveying molten metal from a furnace or container to a ladle or mould.

Derivatives

launderer

noun

Origin:

Middle English (as a noun denoting a person who washes linen): contraction of lavender, from Old French lavandier, based on Latin lavanda 'things to be washed', from lavare 'to wash'

knowingly
adv.
1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype.
2. By experience. [Obs.] Shak.