Fairway bag full of money / more plot recap retread

[Michael Bailey]

So you’re saying that like Peter Minuit, Igor is buying off Maxine cheap,
like he already has corrupted Sid and Nancy - er, March?

That’s another way to look at it. If so, then maybe Igor already had people
who knew about Madoff & was just tossing her an easy pitch, even pointing
out for her the same return month after month. Pulling her into his
organization but not at the level I was thinking.

How does she know Igor again? Thru Slagiatt.
& how does she know Slagiatt again?

His firm Streetlight People provided the venture capital (loans sharking)
for hwgaahwgh so - since Reg wasn’t paying her - she figured they might be
a possible client for her investigation into the hwgaahwgh financial
weirdness. So he treats her to an extravagant lunch, tries to give her a
$5,000 retainer, kind of likes her moxie.

 Slagiatt, NYC basically gangster, presumably reports in to Igor (Slagiatt
described Igor to Maxi as a fixer, but the limited edition limo says
oligarch) - as the Russians have taken over mob activity in NY, right? -
Igor decides she can be useful - and has Slagiatt set up the meeting at the
Omega Diner.

Not as flattering to Maxine.

But if Slagiatt is ready to cut a check for 5k, Igor’s got to outdo that.

And a million in 100s is only 10 kg. That’s maybe a little heavy to pass
out a car window, but Igor’s ex-military and Maxine’s strong enough to pole
dance.




Mark Kohut wrote:

>
> I may be projecting but I never thought it was close to that. I imagined
> some hundreds never organized tightly,
> stuffed in to look like a lot but really mostly air......
>
> Mark
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 3:59 PM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How much in a grocery bag full of hundreds?
>> To save math & measuring I found this on what appears to be some kind of a
>> gaming site:
>>
>>
>>
>> https://bullypulpitgames.com/downloads/half-a-million-dollars-in-a-grocery-bag/
>>
>> “A stack of one hundred greasy street-worn bills, American, takes up 6.89
>> cubic inches, or 112 milliliters. A paper bag, like the one you get your
>> groceries packed in or like the one you are looking at right now, holds
>> 1,428 cubic inches, or just north of 23 liters. That’s 207.25 stacks of
>> cash if you filled it with mathematical perfection, “
>>
>> Igor wouldn’t bother with anything but 100s
>> 10000 x 200 = 2 million ?
>>
>> But it probably is more like half full.
>>
>> Still, a nice surprise for a working mother.
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