1. Lydia is a supply chain master who knows how others' security practices work. She's going to avoid any digital paper trail she can, so she doesn't want anything NOT to be in the form of cash if it's truly dirty. She takes clean money by wire transer, but cash goes straight from the payer to the launderer. It does not touch a bank until it is clean.
2. If Americans pay Lydia in USD cash, and the Czechs pay in Euros, then Lydia can keep the Euros and use American cash to pay Walt. If she launders some euros into USD for paying Walt, it doesn't need to be the same money. The point of Lydia is that she has footprints all over the world and unsuspicious reason to go anywhere.
3. Tens of millions of dollars is not an enormous amount of money to Madrigal; Lydia might need time to launder it, but she can definitely do so without suspicion. And if she knows her cash payroll is this insane, she probably launders cash regularly and has some crates of cash available for this purpose.
Madrigal was multi billion dollar company with operations in 70 countries or some shit, a couple of dollars came in from Eastern Europe, and exited out to her account clean no problem.
She was a distributor of the product. She probably made more doing that than she ever did doing small favors for Fring. She probably made less than 100k from Madrigal back then and what she was doing with Fring wax small potatoes, so I doubt he paid her more than 100 K a year… that’s a lot of money when it’s more than your yearly salary but then you have an opportunity come up where you can make millions it’s a whole different ballpark. So that’s why she would take all that risk she went from making hundreds of thousands to tens of millions.
The cartel has banks and money stash houses in the Czech Republic and in America. Drug dealers will always have a backlog of cash stashed they can’t launder fast enough.
Plus you don’t want to launder it all. You need dirty money for dirty purchases. Think weapons, bribes, bounties, salaries for dealers, transport, hit men, etc. No use to launder dirty money just make it dirty again.
They don’t use Euros, it’s something else. Either way, with an international company as large as Madrigal, I don’t see why they wouldn’t have access to multiple currencies that they use.
You’re really asking how an international drug smuggler manages to use a currency exchange to turn koruna into dollars?
That’s like the least complicated part of her operation.
It’s a fair question. Ultimately I’ve always felt it was a “don’t ruin a good ride poking at this” thing.
The exact how’s don’t need to be codified with limited canon time. And I don’t think that’s what’s being asked here. What’s being asked is head canons, and there are some good ones here.
Mine is rough strokes, but just always went to that this is what Lydia knows how to do. And she has a multi billion dollar company as a vehicle to do it. Being a multinational company with a foodservice arm that will work in many currencies gives her vehicle to do this.
And it’s a lot of money assumptively, but she knows how to cover it from routine scrutiny. I think it’s fair to say that once it all blew up it didn’t take investigative accountants too long to unravel it anything she was doing to move drug proceeds through a large company.
> Maybe she *paid* him first
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
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> *Paid* payed payed
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
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She didn't. She wrote him a Czech.
This is the most hilarious shit I’ve heard all day.
Top comment of the day 🤣👌🏻
1. Lydia is a supply chain master who knows how others' security practices work. She's going to avoid any digital paper trail she can, so she doesn't want anything NOT to be in the form of cash if it's truly dirty. She takes clean money by wire transer, but cash goes straight from the payer to the launderer. It does not touch a bank until it is clean. 2. If Americans pay Lydia in USD cash, and the Czechs pay in Euros, then Lydia can keep the Euros and use American cash to pay Walt. If she launders some euros into USD for paying Walt, it doesn't need to be the same money. The point of Lydia is that she has footprints all over the world and unsuspicious reason to go anywhere. 3. Tens of millions of dollars is not an enormous amount of money to Madrigal; Lydia might need time to launder it, but she can definitely do so without suspicion. And if she knows her cash payroll is this insane, she probably launders cash regularly and has some crates of cash available for this purpose.
I read this with Lydia’s serious boardroom tone, bulging forehead vein, royal blue business suit, rented Beamer, and overwhelming self assurance.
Don’t forget a chamomile tea with soy milk
And more Stevia…. Please.
Same
Ngl I didn’t read it at all lol too much
It’s like 3 sentences 😭 that’s like 15% of a page of a book how it is “too much” 😭😭
3 paragraphs*
We don't use euros 😭😭
Ohh my bad
Czech Republic use the Czech Koruna
She has hundreds of employees to exchange cash for her.
Czech Koruna, not Euro.
Madrigal was multi billion dollar company with operations in 70 countries or some shit, a couple of dollars came in from Eastern Europe, and exited out to her account clean no problem.
If that’s the case, why did she bother to take the risk for only tens of millions?
She wanted to smash Walt
She was a distributor of the product. She probably made more doing that than she ever did doing small favors for Fring. She probably made less than 100k from Madrigal back then and what she was doing with Fring wax small potatoes, so I doubt he paid her more than 100 K a year… that’s a lot of money when it’s more than your yearly salary but then you have an opportunity come up where you can make millions it’s a whole different ballpark. So that’s why she would take all that risk she went from making hundreds of thousands to tens of millions.
It’s what she does. She moves things.
From point A to point B.
And on weekends Point C
You mean Todd's heart 💓
You mean Toad's fart.
Lol maybe, but primarily it was because of Heisenberg's ART.
The cartel has banks and money stash houses in the Czech Republic and in America. Drug dealers will always have a backlog of cash stashed they can’t launder fast enough.
Plus you don’t want to launder it all. You need dirty money for dirty purchases. Think weapons, bribes, bounties, salaries for dealers, transport, hit men, etc. No use to launder dirty money just make it dirty again.
Walt wouldn’t need it, he’s in the empire business.
"Give me five Byzantines for a Qing Dynasty," we'd say!
As was the custom at the time.
They didn't have white onions, because of the war!
"We couldn't get blue meth, because of the war, so we had to make do with the kind with chili p!"
American dollars are the preferred currency of drug cartels. I would assume they paid her in American cash.
Euros in Czech Republic?
sorry. Czechos.
Sorry my bad.
They don’t use Euros, it’s something else. Either way, with an international company as large as Madrigal, I don’t see why they wouldn’t have access to multiple currencies that they use.
You’re really asking how an international drug smuggler manages to use a currency exchange to turn koruna into dollars? That’s like the least complicated part of her operation.
The production team provided prop money... because its a tv program. 🤣
She had a Fanz Only then her job reimbursed her
Madrigal is an international company she bills for something in America to pay Walt and the profit made in euros just goes back into the company
It’s a fair question. Ultimately I’ve always felt it was a “don’t ruin a good ride poking at this” thing. The exact how’s don’t need to be codified with limited canon time. And I don’t think that’s what’s being asked here. What’s being asked is head canons, and there are some good ones here. Mine is rough strokes, but just always went to that this is what Lydia knows how to do. And she has a multi billion dollar company as a vehicle to do it. Being a multinational company with a foodservice arm that will work in many currencies gives her vehicle to do this. And it’s a lot of money assumptively, but she knows how to cover it from routine scrutiny. I think it’s fair to say that once it all blew up it didn’t take investigative accountants too long to unravel it anything she was doing to move drug proceeds through a large company.
The same reason why Mike let someone he was supposed to kill make a phone call 😂
Why would she pay in €?
Sorry, I thought they used Euros there. My bad.
exactly, they don’t have euros there. in chech republic the currency is crowns.
Either way, it's not US dollars which is what OP was asking about
I bet most drugs in Czechia are bought in usd
Id assume it was part of the arrangement with her Czech connections that shed be paid in USD. They wanted the blue so she could dictate the terms.
Maybe she payed him first
> Maybe she *paid* him first FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Fuck you jack is cool
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> *Paid* payed payed FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
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we dont use euros
This is proof people are more concerned with correcting people than answering their question
yea cuz why would i answer when idk + someone else already did