YaYa’s Flam Broiled Chicken. It’s not good. There’s never anybody in the parking lot. But you’re telling me they could move to a bigger location? One that’s a converted bank?? Banks have vaults. For all the laundered money.

Nah they make good steak and shrimp and they don’t bother me so Ima leave them alone. There are much bigger criminals to worry about in this country than shady local businesses.

Every mattress store you’ve ever seen is likely a front for some shady shit.

It’s way more than one shop. Meh, shop there anyway if you like anything they sell. Chances are your government is blowing ridiculous money on bullshit anyway. Pay cash too when you can. And do everything you can to resist digital spending tracking.

In 1991 two small businesses were busted for being fronts for illegal gambling parlors. 30 Cleveland cops were part of the bust. I lived next to both of them at one time. One was a t-shirt printing shop, I forget what the other was. A year later I moved into a neighborhood that had a pizza shop with a very nice sign, no windows and never seemed to be open. It was not uncommon to see a patrol car parked in front

There are three recently opened smoke and vape shops in my village that are 100% money laundering schemes, they all sell American sweets as well for some reason

Local drive-thru chicken joint took a noticeable dive in quality over the course of about 2 years while I was growing up, then it was on the news that a bunch of people got busted selling crack out of the place.

I grew up near a place called the “McGuffin Lumber Company.” It was just a tiny storefront business, and I never saw anyone go in. And, of course, “MacGuffin” is a Hollywood term for an arbitrary thing that motivates the plot of a movie, like the Maltese Falcon in that film. So it was a running gag in my family that it must be a front.

Only one? All vape shops are money laundering fronts, until proven otherwise.

Bakery across from prisoners rights office I used to volunteer at. Went to get a loaf to make a sandwich once. Open shelving all around, mostly bare except for a few dusty loafs. Ask this big, very white man with a head like a toaster, for a said loaf and he goes in the back and comes out with a bag of Wonderbread rofl.

There used to be a coffee shop in my town. Every day they had a two-part secret phrase that would let you get drugs, but it sounded like an order. I think I activated it one time. “Can I please get a double-double with whip cream?” “Sure. How’s your dog Mittens?” “I have no dog?!” Later, the coffee shop shut down because they got caught drug trafficking. They would double cup the coffee orders that had the drugs, and put the drugs in between the paper cups.

One of our customers operates our of two leased “office” trailers next to an old pole barn in the middle of a corn field.

Firm there, they “operate” 17 different companies, all demanding separate billing from us.

There’s no WAY it’s legit. They have more “official” registered companies than they have office employees.

My town had an extremely generically named “spa” that I passed by all the time and joked that it must be a drug ring and I found out that no actually they were a human trafficking ring and they got shut down by the police.

Saw this in Reddit, but I’m banned 😃. Anyway, Norfolk VA: the French bakery/deli on Granby St, in Riverview… “Would you like to sample a pastry?” Sure - Hey, that’s pretty good. “That’ll be $40. Would you like more?” Uhh, no.

My town has a population of about 2,000 people. There are five dedicated car washes within a 10-mile radius of my house, with two more under construction.