[jsmith45]

My understanding is that a good chunk of the TORN tokens issued by "DAO" are earmarked for developers of TC, and these token could be sold for money, etc.

Plus the initial developers could run relay nodes to make money, and can even do it in a way that is basically impossible to prove, by using TC itself when withdrawing the profits made by their relay nodes. Back before sanctions, even at a centralized exchange, nobody would think anything is odd about TC developers exchanging out coins previously transferred through the TC system. After all they care about privacy and don't want people to be able to trace back to all their previous transactions.