system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How does money laundering work?

I have searched, read, and tried to process the process of money laundering, but I still can't wrap my head around it. Please explain.
gpt
You have a briefcase full of illegal cash.  If you go deposit a large amount of cash in a bank account, the bank is required to record the transaction and notify authorities.  You don't want that.  Luckily, you also happen to own a pizza place.  You regularly put money from your briefcase into your pizza place's cash register.  What a spectacularly profitable pizza place you own!  And since your pizza restaurant is legal and regularly reports its income, now your money is legal too.