Money laundering is the process of making illegally-gained proceeds (i.e. dirty money) appear legal (i.e. clean). Typically, it involves three steps: placement, layering, and integration. First, the illegitimate funds are furtively introduced into the legitimate financial system.
Here is information about a currency bill, According to the Bureau of Engraving: * Our present sized currency measures 2.61 inches wide by 6.14 inches long, and the thickness is .0043 inches. * The approximate weight of a currency note, regardless of denomination is (1) one gram. $1,000,000 is 10,000 $100 bills, which weighs 10 kg or about 22 pounds. If stacked in one stack, the height would be 43 inches high or about three and one half feet. Easy to carry in a briefcase if that is what you had in mind.
Ginseng is worth over $2 million a year to residents of the Mountain State, and the potential sales could realistically be 20 times that amount.â Ginseng has been harvested as a cash crop in West Virginia for at least 200 years. In 2002, more than 6,400 pounds of ginseng, worth more than $2 million, were dug in West Virginia. According to the state Division of Forestry, West Virginia ginseng sells for an average of $250 a pound, but prices vary widely depending on supply and demand factors and the quality of the harvested roots.