Rio Hedge

  

You were involved in a long-term scheme to defraud your company out of millions of dollars. Your old auditor used to be a corrupt and lazy loser, easily bribed or evaded. But now some young hotshot has gotten the job, and it's only a matter of time before they blow the whistle on your scam.

Time for a Rio hedge. That is, time to book a trip to Rio de Janeiro to evade justice and run off with the spoils of your embezzlement.

A Rio hedge is the jokey name for the last-resort escape. In real life, it often relates to a particularly risky trade. Like, "if this goes wrong, I'll have to jump on the next flight to Rio and let my creditors track me down." The ultimate, last-ditch hedge. The Rio hedge...escape.

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