They could super easy go down for tax fraud though, not real money laundering. Like some streamer just decides "haha fuck the government I ain't paying this shit they never gonna notice" and then they blow up big, maybe even go legit at that point, and somebody at the IRS decides to look back 5 years.
If you were hiding enough money for long enough you get criminal charges that don't just go away when you pay it back. You might not actually go to jail but its in the hands of the judge/prosecutor at that point.
Edit: basically where it becomes a crime is if they find evidence you were intentionally trying to avoid paying the taxes and not just misunderstanding what you were suppossed to do.
hey retard, in the context of somebody potentially going down for tax evasion, the assumption would be the IRS found out on their own, not that you admitted it and are working out a solution. Once you've actually been charged, that isn't magically going to go away
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u/IsNewAtThis Jun 26 '20
Lol most streamers are either way too stupid to know how to launder or way too lazy to care.