I don't see how Walt owning the car wash and having some cash hurts his taped confession. Its easy enough to claim that the real owner of the car wash isn't Walt, but infact its Hank. The title is in Walt's name for appearances only. Everything merely a front.
Um...I don't think you understand the concept of laundering money. If you do it just to hand it off under the counter to someone else, well...
I'm sure I do understand the concept of laundering money. The concept is to provide a seemingly legitimate means of spending beyond what you could normally afford, like say a charitable gift between family members.
I think you're overstating the importance of who's name is on the car wash title and who's paying the taxes on that money. Plus, as we know an operation the size of Walt's generates far more revenue than any small business could launder.
So Walt having some visible cash isn't nearly enough compared to how much the kingpin should have made.
I'd imagine your point is the one Walt would try to make.
But the bold is important. Walt would be trying to weave one wild tale, with the kingpin not show much profit from the venture (other than the treatment).
Anyway, we shouldn't be talking about this. This thread is for making tired jokes about a poor question tim asked 30 pages ago.
But it really isn't important, because it's not like they're going to go before a judge or a panel and argue about who was the kingpin some time soon. The purpose of the confession was to present enough complications to corner Hank and force him to back off for now. Hank might think he'd win the argument if there ever were one like that, and he might even be correct, but that doesn't matter at all. The tape beats Hank to the punch. Hank was having enough trouble compiling credible evidence to take to the feds before; how does it look if he does it
after Walt records a tearful confession about his brother in law destroying his life? Even if he'd eventually be vindicated, it would now take far longer than before and Walt would almost certainly be long dead.