You are correct in the fact it is illegal to break up a large transaction into less than $10,000 cash transactions to evade reporting requirements but the $80K ABSOLUTELY had traceability because it came from the proceeds of a stock transaction. Are you saying that somehow this so called promoter was able to skirt around the workings of a public company and not have ANY traceability to it?
In fact people launder money when there is no traceability to it to make the money seem to come from a legitimate source so the feds were doing it backwards so to say. This attorney must have needed money desperately to do something that irrational and not think that the money had already had a huge paper trail. This was a huge setup and if he thought it through he would have realized that there was ZERO way to launder money with such a long paper trail.