i only know crime from TV/internet and it seems like a weird move to have an infamously flashy international celebrity be running the laundering operation. or maybe it's brilliant? i've always subscribed to the maxim of not having a big profile when doing crimes.

though it could be as you say, where some organized crime element approached him to put him in the "arrest this guy" jacket so they could run wild for a year or whatever. he seems dumb enough to have signed his name to all kinds of shit legal instruments for "big" bucks without ever learning any partner's name or even seeing anyone but a low level bagman in person. basically, guaranteeing the investigators and prosecutors throw the book at him in frustration because he has nothing to trade in cooperating.