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Yeah. I don't believe it's possible to make a billion dollars and not be/have been involved in shady shit. All billionaires are criminals IMO.
Arguably you could inherit it. Shady shit was done for the money still, sure, but not by the person with the money.
Then you just wait for them to do new shady shit because they probably will.
That would also be a failure of policy: namely, inadequate inheritance tax (which was specifically intended to prevent the kind of aristocracy a billion-dollar inheritance would create).
Laundering blood money through a generation will make it clean again. No guilt if you can inherit the sins of your fathers. No complicity if you simply stand on a mountain of corpses that just happened to die for your benefit.
It isn't their fault they won the lottery of life. You can still judge them for their own actions, what they do with all the money.
We all have a duty in this life to do better than our predecessors, not merely to wallow in their misdeeds and plead innocence.
Inheriting blood money simply means you've inherited the obligation to right the wrongs that produced it.