Regardless of the outcome of the election, it is likely that legislation will be introduced in Congress to close the loopholes in the money laundering laws and to establish some sort of database system to keep track of the identities of the owners of luxury real estate and cross-check those names with known members of organized crime and international financial criminals. This kind of database has already proven to be a powerful tool for the European Union in preventing the use of luxury real estate to launder dirty money.