I personally believe the money laundering at MG was rampant. It had to be. I remember hearing [[Ernest]] say things like "I don't know where I'm going to put all this money." and at other times telling me "Did you know you can only put so much cash in the bank at a time?" as well as opening multiple bank accounts across the city. Why else would this need to be done unless there were extreme amounts of money being moved around illegally? This level of cash never came through the shop. What was he doing? - Private Loans - Ernest took out business loans all the time. There were always calls trying to loan us money. I know that loan sharks exist, but my theory is that he was actually taking loans and not repaying anything back. There's no way to know the truth considering how much of a liar he was found to be. - Dog Breeding - [[Sterling]] was involved in dog breeding along with a bunch of other people from Ernest's family and friend circle so I can only assume the worst, knowing them. I doubt any of it was documented or properly done. I assume the animal abuse was rampant as well considering these people are violent. How would anyone know? They were all liars. If this portion of their business was legitimate I'm sure it was just a front for drug trafficking. After all, Sterling's wife was a police officer and he had so many ties to FedEx that they could basically do anything they wanted. - Drug Trafficking - Sterling said he was fine being the "scape goat" for his friends and family to "party" but really, I saw it as him destroying his community. Especially after knowing that he was involved in cocaine, and I'm sure, the manufacture and distribution of crack throughout his community. - Shop Employees & Government Loans - Ernest had everyone at the shop as an "independent contractor" which is fine, but I know he was doing some other shady business with legitimate government loans (PPP, EIDL, etc.) I can't confirm this but I have a huge suspicion that he was using our affiliate program as a means of beefing up the number of employees on paper. Our affiliate program was NOT an employment program by any means, and in fact, wasn't successful enough, as far as generating large enough income, for someone to site it as a source of employment. --- https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-923-18-usc-371-conspiracy-defraud-us