Suresh commented: #Eh. The term itself originated because capone set up a chain of laundries #which earned him lots of profits, to account for all the money he was #raking in from bootleg booze If folks want to understand the topic of modern money laundering, by far the best publicly available treatment of this topic that I've seen is the 2005 US Money Laundering Threat Assessment, 81 pages, available online at http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/terrorist-illicit-finance/Documents/... Regards, Joe