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After 1986, prosecuting major criminal enterprises became easier because laws allowed authorities to seize assets by proving concealment alone, removing the need to prove underlying crimes and making asset forfeiture more effective.
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Repeated exposure makes unrelated statements seem true because repetition creates familiarity that reduces processing effort, and that feeling of ease is misread as a signal of truth.
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Cognitive ease supports quick intuition and creativity but also increases gullibility because effortless processing favors efficient heuristics that can mislead, while deliberate reasoning requires uncomfortable effort yet yields more reliable conclusions on hard problems.
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Most laundering follows placement, layering, and integration because those steps successively convert cash into plausible assets, break audit trails through repeated movements, and then reintroduce the proceeds as apparently legitimate income.
Familiarity produces a rapid, preconscious 'flicker' of recognition because ease of processing triggers quick semantic signals that feel like correct intuition before conscious thought catches up.
Placement is the riskiest laundering stage because introducing large, unexplained cash inflows—often via anonymous intermediaries—creates anomalies that trigger bank monitoring and regulatory scrutiny.