Which best describes money laundering?

illegally obtained money is rendered legal in a three-step process.

money from sales is stolen before it gets recorded.

a ghost employee is created to defraud payroll.

the criminal creates a pyramid of investors in which lower rungs pay for investment returns on upper ones, while the criminal siphons money.

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Explanation:

Money laundering:the concealment of the origins of illegally obtained money, typically by means of transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses.

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in a chemical reaction, the atoms and molecules produced by the reaction are called products. no new atoms are created, and no atoms are destroyed. in a chemical reaction, reactants contact each other, bonds between atoms in the reactants are broken, and atoms rearrange and form new bonds to make the products.