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Word of the Day: Fishy
Not everyone likes to eat fish, yet we all know when a fish doesn’t smell right.
We know a bad fish stinks when it has gone bad and is no longer edible.
The same is true for a situation that doesn’t ‘smell right.’
When something is wrong with a situation, and we suspect something is a little weird, we’re not precisely sure what is wrong or why we can say it’s fishy.
At casinos in Vancouver, Canada, for many years, people walked in with bags of twenty-dollar bills, exchanged them for chips, played a high-stakes game for a while and then cashed out.
Nothing illegal took place, but don’t you think it seems fishy when someone walks into a casino with a bag of money?
It turns out that when people purchase illegal drugs, the most common denomination they use is twenty-dollar bills.
The cash earned through selling drugs is dirty money for the drug dealers.
Dirty money needs to be laundered.
They laundered the money by running it through a casino.
Casinos give fifty and hundred dollar bills plus receipts.
When the dealers deposited the laundered money in a bank account, they could show the casino receipt to prove where it came from.
Nobody asked if the money had been won or earned.
There was no reason to suspect anything was fishy at all.
The scandal is still developing.
The public would like to know why nobody thought there was anything fishy about people bringing bags of money into a casino.
People also want to know why the government took so long to realize something was wrong.
Who knows?
Maybe someone was able to pull strings in the government.
If so, that would be fishy too.
The Japanese government wants to have casinos operating in Japan.
I hope they have better regulations to detect when something fishy is going on.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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