currency, let's get into the underworld. the criminal underworld.is getting easier. are talking about digital economy. it takes just a click of your mouse to commit a crime. sam grobart reports. >> pretend you are a criminal that is carrying around a big bag of money for all your nefarious deeds. so big that the cash in your back will get you a visit from shadowy men in dark sunglasses. you need to launder the money. here are the two common methods. the first is digital. people hide large amounts of money by setting up an offshore company to park cash. there are companies online that start one up in minutes. a few clicks of a mouse and jim's caribbean imports exists. it may be hard to believe, but this is legal. from here, money can be wired to new companies in small amounts. keep in mind that the feds track any deposit over $10,000. small deposits can fly under the radar. of course, criminals can also go analog. then, it is as simple as assembling no good friends and handing them cash. unlike betting on course races or playing slot machines, casino

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order to implement the family planning policy, the government has sent people from the (criminal) underworld, together with the police and the family planning committee. the life of each household is disrupted. everybody lives in constant fear. we are very miserable. >> zhou and his first daughter zhou qing, help prepare the birthday meal. he is separated from his wife, and alone provides for his 10-year-old. zhou also has a second daughter, one he has not seen since she was seized by local officials eight years ago, and likely sold into adoption abroad. in 2003, when zhou was away working, family planning officials barged into the house where his mother was tending to the 3-month-old child. >> "they asked my mother for money as a fine for the birth of our second child. but my mother had no money, and my wife and i were out working. they asked my mother where this child came from. my mother was very afraid, so she dared not to admit the baby was ours. she told them that the baby was someone else's and that she was just looking after her for the moment. but they took the child away." when zho

agreement buildings that were in the heart of a lively district of nilth clubs known then as the underworld of parlor houses and cafes not like today's cafes they were distance clubs basically. the ear was identified in the newspapers as the uptown tenderloin. the term was pretty new everyone in the city in 1913 knew with the downtown was barbary coast so it was distinguished from the uptown tenderloin. what was new about it was there was this tenderloin in the middle of an upscale apartment districts right now is the hotel and whatnot which sprung up after the 1906 san francisco earthquake and made up much of the historic uptown tenderloin district we're in today. so a singularity ago it was a mix of all sorts of distinct people young single women that worked up denouncing town and lived downtown. there were service workers that came in contact to the district to support of the agreements buildings and middle-class folks who enjoyed the entertainment and the owners who figure out to keep their distance hallways open and the churches that wanted to close them down. so the tenderloin was an

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shelter it is the ambiguous and indeed hypocritical relationship between western governments and the underworld america still finding them in a tree an effective is for single mothers on. i marinated the wheel impartial i'm very into it. only on the back new zealand. alone again sleepless months to many of the family to be that protesting on the streets the boys did a quick snapshot of the pharisees who were rallied over the weekend against the welfare reform to see many cut off vital benefits because they didn't have a spare bedroom in the whole week the government says the mall which had a full senior ncos were just the overcrowding but campaigners say something pushing people into poverty daunting reports now the brits desperate to keep a roof over their heads with the addition he tended to twenty five when the two main thing is the norm from nine to halt million projects that increase the number of tenants at the boston end of the market. tok about multiple tinking stations as well. country who asked us not to use his real name pace two hundred and forty five pounds a week. that's in london

the underworld that is involved in racketeering and so forth. was he involved in a?hink some of those questions need to be asked. because there's a lot more than meets the eye. >> i might disagree with you little but on this area that could be too complicated. i just think a mean-spirited guy like this, a couple weeks ago i really was wondering if he had a mental deficiency. could he have been losing it to say things and then contradict them a couple weeks later. it's kind of frightening. >> the bottom line is that he can get away with it. like president obama, he owns the press with certain exceptions. but he owns so much that they give him a free pass. so the more that you say outrageous things in progress evening pushback, the more outrageous things you say will become. charles: gary, thank you so much. we appreciate it. a hot sauce plan that is too hot to handle. a guy who is fighting back a guy who is fighting back coming up next. [ laughter ] smoke? nah, i'm good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release smartc

explore the underworld of a criminal operation, we look at the modern techniques of money launderingne you are a criminal caring around a big bag of money. so big that the positing it into the bank will get you a visit. you need a plan. to keep the cash of what to get rid of the traceable bills. here are the two most common roots. first, ditch it. people need to hide large amounts of money. they set off and off country account. upre are some that can set in minutes. you need a passport number and a credit card. that is it. it may be hard to believe. [indiscernible] wired to, money can be the new countries. fed looks at the anyone transfer over $10 million. smaller transfers can be under the rug. coarse, criminals can go analog. it is as simple as gathering no good friend and a las vegas and directing them to the tables. ,nlike betting on horse races conceals are not required to aree tax forms -- casinos not required to issue tax forms. the chips are cash in and the new bills. like uncle sam, anything over $10,000 is likely to catch someone's attention. to only surefire way is never s

as much for the rise in its price as for the link to the underworld including ponzi schemes and outrights talking about an online haven for criminals that's rarely seen by every day users of the internet. when the feds shut down the notorious online black market bizarre called silk road. over 2.5 year period it allegedly sold $1.2 billion worth of cocaine. lsd and other illegal goods all paid for with bitcoin. >> you see that and you think regulations are going to come. and that tends to swing too far to one side. isn't that concerning? >> you are a bitcoin -- are you involved. >> i am not involved in the dark web or transactions. and nautilus coin is not involved. but in terms of bitcoin and all of this, you know what is the most used currency for all these type of transactions? >> cash. >> cash. u.s. dollars. $100 bills. i wouldn't worry about it that much. >> isn't that scarey music that mary had? >> it is. because it's scarey stuff, the dark web. >> and i am scared. >> it's the time of year for -- >> i got to move on. full documentary tonight or any time. investigations inc. cnbc.com

captive would have been taken to a temple in the west court and sacrificed to the maya gods of the underworld. linda schele believes the ritual involved hundreds of people in a public ceremony of sacrifice and dance. the image of the dance has people dressed in the most incredibly elaborate costumes. it's almost like if you've ever seen the mummers dance in the thanksgiving day parade with the great feather fans around them. it was just like that. only these were iridescent, green quetzal feathers. there would have been musicians. they would have played drums this high... turtle shells with deer horns. they had great rattles like this. they had long wooden trumpets. they had whistles of all sorts, so that the whole place would have been filled with this incredible cacophony of sound. at the right moment, the king would pull a stingray spine through his tongue or cut through his genitals and pull paper or pull rope through it to draw the blood. some of the captives would have been sacrificed up above and thrown down to this part of the ceremonies. others of them the king himself would dispatch

bitcoin's grabbed headlines, as much for the meteoric rise in its price as for its link to the online underworlding fraud, ponzi schemes, and outright theft. >> the character web is full of vendors who accept only or exclusively bitcoin. >> former assistant attorney dawnia perry is talking about an online haven for criminals that's rarely seen by everyday users of the internet. the dark web shining unwanted light on bitcoin last fall. when the fed shut down the notorious online black market bizarre called silk road. over a two and a half year period it allegedly sold $1.2 billion worth of cocaine, lsd, fake credit cards, licenses and other illegal goods, all paid for with bitcoin. now, the bitcoin uprising also explores bitcoin's promise which is fully embraced by one computer whiz kid who we profiled who is paying for his groceries, trips, all with the digital currency. watch the full documentary on investigationsinc.cnbc president come. >> mary thompson, twice today. >> first on "morning joe" and now on "street signs." >> i'm nicer now. >> you're always nice. >> go ahead. >> let's send it over

we learned he is still tied to his past and to a strange underworld of smugglers and drug cartels andy characters. joining me now is jesse katz who wrote the story. jesse, this is made for quentin tarantino. give us the cliffs notes. >> michael, we have to remember there is no legitimate path for a ball player to get off that island and to the major leagues. there is no other nation in the world who a player has to put his life in the hands of a pipeline exploiting the kasm with the u.s. and cube a.puig has financiers in miami who put up $250,000 to get him out of cuba. in return, puig was going to repay them 20% of the future earnings. they did the work. they got him off the island. they brought him to mexico and the breakdown in finances. he found himself captive for 20 odd days. >> that sounds a little higher brow than the way in which i read it in your fine piece. it is an air conditioning repairman who is an small time crook who turns to a mexican drug cartel to make this happen? >> that is the pulp version there. mr. big is 29-year-old guy on probation for attempting to steal ai

they smuggle cigarettes into here all the time to it avoid the tax there is a whole bunch of underworldon that. >> much less. >> john stossel, everybody. there he is. plenty more ahead. factor moves along this evening. charles krauthammer on why public school officials fear jesus. that should be interesting. and is it legal on the attorney general being grilled about the abuse of power and whether irs official lois lerner will be charged with contempt of congress. we hope you stay tuned to those reports. my dad has aor afib.brillation, he has the most common kind... ...it's not caused by a heart valve problem. dad, it says your afib puts you at 5 times greater risk of a stroke. that's why i take my warfarin every day. but it looks like maybe we should ask your doctor about pradaxa. in a clinical trial, pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate mesylate)... ...was proven superior to warfarin at reducing the risk of stroke. and unlike warfarin, with no regular blood tests or dietary restrictions. hey thanks for calling my doctor. sure. pradaxa is not for people with artificial heart valves. don't st

they smuggle cigarettes into here all the time to it avoid the tax there is a whole bunch of underworldossel, everybody. there he is. plenty more ahead. factor moves along this evening. charles krauthammer on why public school officials fear jesus. that should be interesting. and is it legal on the attorney general being grilled about the abuse of power and whether irs official lois lerner will be charged with contempt of congress. we hope you stay tuned to we hope you stay tuned to those reports. [ laughter ] smoke? nah, i'm good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release smartcontrol technology that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. help prevent your cravings with nicoderm cq. so i got the new nokia lumia icon. it's got 1080p video, three times zoom, and a twenty-megapixel sensor. it's got the brightest display, so i can see what i'm shooting -- even outdoors, and 4 mics that capture incredible sound. plus, it has apps like vine -- and free cloud storage. my new lumia icon is so great, even our wipeouts look amazing. ♪ hone

convinced that nothing is to come from the sky did it on the other back and loyalty which is the underworld that he hadn't used to so far he's an very important item and get people out looking for him out of loyalty and because he don't expect any change for this essay from the society aimed at calming the time. and i was speaking with algerian colleagues earlier today nice and you know we had our spring people forget it was back in nineteen eighty when a working student demonstrations against the established order. and many people feel that they're still shell shocked by it would you say to that. yet when one of our home always asked about the time the honor of spring always say on here is a precursor of them and they are the exception on because in nineteen ninety eight to the team was forced to open up to the end that to put that accord euro disney and allow an independent press these games where old buck and disbanded in the short democratic transition was aborted by a coup d'etat that led to an approach to civil war. on the civil war and has caused is truly the civil society has divide

the underworld that is involved in racketeering and so forth. was he involved in a? think some of those questions need to be asked. because there's a lot more than meets the eye. >> i might disagree with you little but on this area that could be too complicated. i just think a mean-spirited guy like this, a couple weeks ago i really was wondering if he had a mental deficiency. could he have been losing it to say things and then contradict them a couple weeks later. it's kind of frightening. >> the bottom line is that he can get away with it. like president obama, he owns the press with certain exceptions. but he owns so much that they give him a free pass. so the more that you say outrageous things in progress evening pushback, the more outrageous things you say will become. charles: gary, thank you so much. we appreciate it. a hot sauce plan that is too hot to handle. a guy who is fighting back coming up next. [inaudible] >> this fight is really heating up. residents of one city demanding that this hot sauce plan be close down because they say that the air that come

he said of the voice of america, it's as if they broadcast from the underworld or a world that no longeriew these stations as spam on our airways. he is the only russian journalist black listed by the u.s. over his role in promoting the annexation of crimea and in utter defiance of president obama's recent comment that r h russia is only a recent power, he said it's the only country that could turn the u.s.a. into radioactive ash. the silencing of voice of america in russia is an important tool as u.n. ambassador said yesterday. russia has a virtual monopoly on information. >> -- come barreded by russian disinformation and propaganda while ukrainians are being enticed by excitement and violence. >> the director of the voice of america said that the blackout is very limited in scope. >> it's not really much of a blackout. what the move that the russians have made affects only about 1% of our audience reach in russia. our big play isn't the small medium wave transmitter in a suburb of moscow. it's on the internet. >> state department is condemning the operation. state points out in the las

underworld citizens. dispositive. it deals with what is in front of us. prefacesthat someone their rights with the protestation of their innocence and then invokes the fifth amendment right. doesn'tcitly says that waive your right. for the majority of this committee, to assert otherwise, it is to ignore case law. in tough times. in tough cases. i played with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. are we not about protecting citizens rights? they are not appealing characters? it is precisely when it is difficult. when it is politically inconvenient. and unpopular. this body must rise and protect the constitutional rights of everybody. rights ofopardize the , wetizen like lois lerner jeopardize the rights of every american. people holdso often up the constitution saying i am a constitutionalist. well, practice what you preach. fifth amendment. understand what it means. boat -- cast the right vote today. i yield back. >> i think the gentleman. imris are advised we will not recess for the vote. if they need to vote, and come back, i advise them to. wit

second, restricted the ability of underworld prepares to represent taxpayers in audits of returns they prepared unless they earn that certificate. third, mount a consumer protection campaign that educates taxpayers about the need to select prepares who can demonstrate competency and reminds taxpayers to obtain a copy of their tax return with the prepares signature on a. finally, the irs should develop a publicly accessible and searchable prepare database to include all prepares to register with the irs. after all, the best enforcement and consumer protection strategy is to have an informed and educated consumer base. in this instance, taxpayers. who need to have some clear-cut way of knowing which content meet minimum level of competency and which are not willing to make the effort. that is why having a mandatory certified prepare designation along with enrolled agency p.a. and attorney, is so important. it is a bright line that taxpayers can understand. thank you. >> ms. olson, think your colleagues will all take five minutes, five minute rounds at this point but let me start with wit

go to jail, face charges, or flip and start working for the f.b.i., use his connections with the underworldnnections for the f.b.i. >> yeah. apparently the f.b.i. caught him -- he was involved with some drug kingpins and it was a big coke deal and they caught him and they said, al, you're going to be in big trouble unless you help us. so start recording these people. apparently, according to the smoking gun, he taped mobsters with that briefcase. he helped the authorities bring down members of the genovese crime family. he said yeah, but they never told me i was part of a mob informant. here he is. >> they came in 1982, '83, after don king and tried to entrap me in a drug deal that didn't work. then seven months later when i was threatened by members of the mob because i was saying that a lot of concerts should be going to black artists and i went after them and i was threatened, i called these f.b.i. guys back, since some of the guys were from california and said these are the kind of things they ought to be investigating. >> right. so he's saying they should investigate the boss trying to