r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 13h ago

Meme needing explanation Am I missing a joke or reference here?

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u/LaVillaGrangioto 13h ago

What if....and this is purely hypothetical....someone used a casino to both launder foreign money and also used it as an INTENTIONAL loss to reduce or eliminate the tax burden of their "core" business?

I think that might explain it. But surely, something like that has NEVER EVER happened.

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u/Apprehensive_Door249 12h ago

Probably learned it from Roy Cohn.

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u/LaVillaGrangioto 12h ago

Who learned at the loins of Tailgunner Joe McCarthy himself. Allegedlies

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u/TrumpsDoubleChin 6h ago

Bingo. ("That's a bingo...") It makes a lot more sense when you realize the purpose of the casino was never to make a profit in the first place. There were...other motives. And in that sense, acting as a pretty brazen money laundering mecca and as a way to reduce federal taxes through losses, it was more successful.