U.S. Govt seeking rights to Wolf of Wall Street, Dumb & Dumber

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always said some films look like a money laundering scheme

>First came "The Wolf of Wall Street." Now the U.S. government says two more feature films were financed by illicit foreign money.

>In a complaint issued Thursday, the Justice Department claimed that tens of millions of dollars were diverted from a Malaysian government investment fund to produce "Dumb and Dumber To" and "Daddy's Home."

>It's part of what prosecutors say was an enormous international fraud: Corrupt officials and financiers stole $4.5 billion from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) between 2009 and 2015, laundering the money through a series of shell companies with bank accounts in the United States and abroad.

>Prosecutors have filed to recover $1.7 billion.

>The Justice Department says millions in stolen money was funneled through Red Granite Pictures, a Los Angeles production company. The government is laying claim to the movie rights from all three films in question, as well as any profits.