Not a thing.

Take $1M from a stranger and don’t report it to the IRS and see what happens to you.

Probably jail.

Well, if you are this alliterate A list reality star or this A+ list mostly movie actor who took two or even three times that amount, nothing happens to you.

Not a thing.

Now, when this former A list mostly movie actor who did a lot of action movies or this former A list singer who is always late and they end up in jail for much less, they wonder why the reality star and the A+ lister were not subjected to the same treatment/punishment.

Kim Kardashian

Leonardo DiCaprio

former A list mostly movie actor: Wesley Snipes

former A list singer: Lauryn Hill

FBI Documents Show Leonardo DiCaprio, Kim Kardashian Grilled for 1MDB Secrets

Inside the US government’s effort to unravel a giant financial fraud, with some help from the celebrities who got paintings and bags of cash via a friendly future fugitive named Jho Low.

Leonardo DiCaprio was struggling to remember some of the details about his relationship with financier Jho Low.

In an office on Sunset Boulevard back in April 2018, an FBI special agent, an IRS investigator and three Department of Justice prosecutors started off their interrogation of the movie star with gentle questions, according to an FBI summary of the interview. They spoke about his acting career, his charity work and his production company, Appian Way.

Soon the interview turned to Low, the tycoon accused of orchestrating the looting of billions of dollars from Malaysian sovereign-wealth fund 1MDB, whom DiCaprio had met in 2010. Low had lavished the actor with gifts, partying with him across the globe and financing his 2013 movie The Wolf of Wall Street. DiCaprio recounted to the agents that the relationship began in a nightclub. He’d been told that Low’s money came from an unknown “whale of whales” in Abu Dhabi, he said, and that Low was the “Mozart of the business world.” Only later, around 2015, did federal investigators target Low in a multibillion-dollar embezzlement probe. (He didn’t reply to a request for comment.)

As an FBI agent presented DiCaprio with emails and documents, the actor’s memory became less clear. He didn’t remember discussing one of Low’s companies with him, even though DiCaprio had once described Low in an email to a potential investor as “my friend” and the “CEO” of that same company. When he looked at another email, DiCaprio told the agents it didn’t look like “something he would write”—he thought he “might have cut-and-pasted it.” DiCaprio was sure his managers had vetted Low before working with him on The Wolf of Wall Street, but he didn’t recall what the background check had found.

That Low liked to party with actors, record producers and models is no secret, nor are the paintings, supercars and cash he gifted them. But previously undisclosed FBI documents reviewed by Bloomberg Businessweek offer a deeper accounting of those deals and show how federal agents squeezed celebrities and their handlers for information about Low.

Kim Kardashian, for instance, told the FBI in February 2019 how she’d met Low and partied with him in Las Vegas. He’d given her fiancé at the time, NBA journeyman Kris Humphries, $100,000 for fireworks at their 2011 wedding. Years later he offered her a work by Basquiat, prompting her then husband, Kanye West, to ask for a Monet—“to mess with Low because both Kardashian and West found Low to be very fickle when giving gifts and never expected to actually receive a painting,” the agents wrote. (A representative for DiCaprio declined to comment. Representatives for Kardashian, Humphries and West didn’t respond to detailed messages seeking comment.)

Kardashian also recounted an unusual money transfer. According to the FBI summary of her interview, she and others—including Wolf of Wall Street co-producers Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland—were at a casino in Las Vegas with Low. The group played baccarat in a private room. At 5 a.m., Kardashian was ready to leave, but a friend told her to drink some coffee and stick around, because he’d “heard stories of Low giving people chips at the end of the night.” As the gamblers screamed “monkey” (baccarat lingo that basically means “I need a 10 or face card”), Kardashian called out which bets to make and won a big hand.

She tried to turn the winnings over to Low, but he told her to keep the chips, by then worth $350,000. She told the FBI that when she went to the casino counter to cash out, she was handed $250,000 in “a trash bag full of one hundred dollar bills.”

“Kardashian put the trash bag full of cash in her carry-on bag and boarded a Southwest Airlines flight back to Los Angeles,” FBI agents wrote. She collected the other $100,000, again in a trash bag full of cash, during a later trip to party with Low in Las Vegas. – Source