"The unfamiliar ring tone of Garreth’s cell woke her."
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Chapter 82. BEENIE’SAwakening to a call from Garreth, Hollis leaves the flat for Beenie’s where she meets Garreth, Tito and the old man. The old man explains that the contents of the shipping container were never intended to arrive in a First World country, rather for an economy "in which that sort of money can be traded for one thing or another, without too punishing a discount." As the profiteers were consistently unable to launder the cash, they became progressively nervous until cutting a deal with a church in Porthill, Idaho, "the kind with its own television station [where] hundred dollar bills in the collection plate are the norm."
Hollis and company watch the container roll by on a flatbed truck, on its way towards the US border and “a world of trouble.” [752 characters]
William Gibson's early story Burning Chrome (1982) also mentions large scale (electronic) money laundering:
- "Most of it was phone calls. My fifteen initial and very oblique inquiries each seemed to breed fifteen more. I was looking for a certain service Bobby and I both imagined as a requisite part of the world's clandestine economy, but which probably never had more than five customers at a time. It would be one that never
advertised.
We were looking for the world's heaviest fence, for a non-aligned money laundry capable of dry-cleaning a megabuck online cash transfer and then forgetting
about it."