I would spend about $500,000.00 on the product and then calculate what my return rate was per year. say for every $500,000.00 I spend on the product, I earn $850,000.00, $100,000.00 of that goes to transporting the product and giving my drug runners their cut, that would leave me with $250,000.00 profit.
Thats a 50% return on my investment. I would try to get other people interested in investing in my drug dealing scheme. I wouldnt tell them I was selling drugs though, I'd just start a phony business like a night club or something as a front and tell people if they invest in my night club, by the end of the year they'll receive a 20% return on their investment, and I'd pocket the other 30% of profit they unknowingly earned.
the second year I'd spend another $500,000.00 on the product, and get another $500,000.00 from investors. The cost of transporting & giving my drug runners their cut would probably double since the amount of drugs im moving will have doubled, so out of $1 million dollars invested, the return would be about $1.7million, I'd spend about $200,000.00 getting rid of it, which would leave me about $1.5 million dollars. I'd give $120,000.00 to each person that invested $100,000.00, and then keep the other $30,000.00 in profit for myself.
Seeing how I earned $250,000 in profit for my $500,000 investment last time, this time I'd earn $400,000 for my $500,000 investment, thats like an 80% profit. ($250,000.00 from money I invested, and another $150,000 I'd pocket from the money my invetors invested)
I'd keep doing the same thing year after year, opening more night clubs/strip clubs as fronts until I eventually get a 100%+ return on my money every year, or I get caught. Which wouldnt happen because by then, I'd just supply the money, all the drug handling would be done by my underlings.
I'd have my operation set up like a chain of command. I'd tell about 4 people I really trust what to make happen (say 4 leaders of local gangs), each 4 of them would be in charge of a gang of about 30 or so people. They'd distribute the product around their gang, who would then go and sell it and keep their cut of the profit and then give the rest to their gang leader who would then get his cut and then give me mine. It would all look legit beause I have a legitimate business to use for money laundering. A strip club would work best because strippers make their money under the table, on tips, so I wouldnt have a record of it anyways.
