The Snakehead

“But I thought you helped casinos?” I asked him. He beamed a sly, glazed-over grin. “Sometimes, my friend,” he said, putting his hand on my shoulder, his voice falling to just above a whisper, “you have to play both sides.”
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I couldn’t believe that every day, people sent millions of perfectly good U.S. dollars to the Inspector Gadget creator’s Bahamian bank in exchange for digital tokens conjured by the Mighty Ducks guy and run by executives who were targets of a U.S. criminal investigation.