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Seems like you'd just take the $9M of profit and pay the gains rate on it and at least be on good terms with the IRS if not the FBI/SEC. :)


Yeah, the only reason to charity-wash it would be if you thought it was more likely to go uncaught. I suspect you'd be caught in either version of the fraud. :-)




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