Remove it from the original suitcase first. I've seen No Country for Old Men.

breaking bad actually explained it pretty well

If this was on the side of a snowy road by a barb wire fence, I’d just put it right back & carry on driving away from Fargo…

Lots of crooks just spend it on the black market. Hookers and blow. All cash, no receipts. No audits.

Put your regular income into savings to save for a mortgage, debt paydown, and mutual aid and other big purchases. You now have 750k for daily expenses and fun money for the next half of your life.

Depends who we’re afraid of here. Are we afraid of whoever lost the suitcase full of money, or the government, or both?

I’d assume whoever ditched a suitcase of money is a criminal, and unlikely to report it as lost with the serial numbers of the banknotes.

In that case I’d just use it for some day-to-day stuff, small luxuries, and whatever crap I want on Facebook marketplace that doesn’t need to be registered.

If I was convinced these banknotes came from a bank robbery or something of the sort, I think I’d only use it at somewhat sketchy looking flea markets / swap meets, and on holiday in foreign countries. But in that case it would be very hard to ever use all of it without trying to get a suspicious amount of cash through TSA and past customs.

I'm too poor to understand why this would be difficult

That really is a sweet case

I'm not knowledgeable enough to know exactly how this could work, but I think the first step would be to register a business or five in Nevis. Maybe a "consulting business".

I'm sure there's a way to do it, rich people launder money all the time.

Is that a Sync for Reddit screenshot?

RIP Reddit.

First thing I'd do is quickly acquire $750k of counterfeit bills from the dark web and then place the bag with the counterfeit bills back where I found it. Hopefully before anyone notices it's gone. I've seen too many movies to know how this ends.

My husband's into the One Piece TCG. There's some pretty significant money exchanging hands in that scene, so it should be fairly easy to launder that kind of money by buying cards in cash and selling them on Cardmarket (thus paying taxes on them). Just last week he was part of a deal where a card was sold for 26k in cash and nobody was phased by it haha

$750,000 is a lot of money. I have a job that pays me well, and maintaining my legal, safe lifestyle is worth more to me than getting away with more money.

I would search for anything that helps identify the owner, and failing that, confirm my idea with a lawyer. My understanding is that in my state, I have to give the money to the police for 60 days. If the owner fails to claim it, it legally becomes mine, and I have to pay income taxes on it. That'll make a mess of my tax filings for the year (suddenly I don't qualify for Roth IRA, for example) but I don't place myself in any legal danger.

It's a boring answer, but I'd much rather have a boring $440,000 than an exciting $750,000 and a constant threat looming over me.

I'd suddenly start doing my laundry more.

You could say I'm laundering it.

Make a deal with a rich person to buy a painting of yours for 740 k, and then you hand them the 750 k in cash. You now have 740 k in clean money, and they made 10 k in profit. Presumably some wealthy people can take on 750,000 in cash and laundry it through their businesses