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The inside story of the $13M Mercedes linked to Ryan Wedding and seized by the FBI
CBC News ^ | Dec 03, 2025 | Thomas Daigle

Posted on 12/03/2025 5:23:31 AM PST by jerod

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1 posted on 12/03/2025 5:23:31 AM PST by jerod
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How does a middle aged jeweller accumulate that king of cash, by ripping off his customers, or dealing in blood diamonds????

I am sure Hoovie can confirm the true value...


2 posted on 12/03/2025 5:38:40 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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How does a middle aged jeweller accumulate that king of cash, by ripping off his customers, or dealing in blood diamonds????

Neither, he was being bankrolled by Wedding who was ultimately purchasing the car.

I almost bought it myself until I found out it was useless in snow.

3 posted on 12/03/2025 5:49:33 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (uest)
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Used to see them listed in AutoTrader.


4 posted on 12/03/2025 5:58:58 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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The front looks like your basic Mercedes... I wouldn't pay you more than $10,000 for any car made in 2002.


5 posted on 12/03/2025 6:05:04 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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That is, without a doubt, the ugliest car ever made by Mercedes.


6 posted on 12/03/2025 6:08:20 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Charlie Kirk: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine")
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“As for that Mercedes, it’s like new — it has only been driven 22 kilometres.”

Doesn’t matter. The MINUTE you drive it off the lot it loses value. Everyone knows that! *SMIRK*

Not a very smart way to launder your blood money, Dude!


7 posted on 12/03/2025 6:21:47 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Note to self: If you become a supercrook, stop after the first ten million and retire. And drive a used pickup truck.


8 posted on 12/03/2025 6:39:59 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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stop after the first ten million and retire.

I could never figure those guys out. When is enough enough?

A white dude on the run from the Feds in Mexico is going to stand out like a sore thumb. He'll either be caught by the Feds, the Mexican authorities, or eventually killed by some cartel.

9 posted on 12/03/2025 6:50:25 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (uest)
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It’d look good with mud grips.


10 posted on 12/03/2025 6:51:44 AM PST by tet68 ("We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us." Henry V.)
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I don’t know, those tires are kinda expensive.......


11 posted on 12/03/2025 6:56:40 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (uest)
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https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/reward-raised-for-ten-most-wanted-fugitive-ryan-wedding

doesn’t say dead or alive but eventually someone will collect.


12 posted on 12/03/2025 6:56:47 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Hey, world conquest is expensive.

So are hookers.


13 posted on 12/03/2025 6:57:02 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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doesn’t say dead or alive but eventually someone will collect.

How stupid can that guy be? He was an olympic snowboarder who could have made a real comfortable life for himself after the olympics with the right agent and lucrative endorsements.

14 posted on 12/03/2025 7:00:03 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (uest)
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A $13 million car? When it’s 2 years old and has 15,000 miles you get $100,000 in trade.


15 posted on 12/03/2025 7:08:22 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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“Diamond Tsar. Sokolovski.

I’m not sure using a names like the above is a very smart way to ‘fly under the radar’, given the Deep State hatred of Russia.


16 posted on 12/03/2025 7:24:23 AM PST by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Do they make white wall mud grips?
That’d be classy!! Maybe with some of those big rim pimp wheels !!


17 posted on 12/03/2025 7:25:17 AM PST by tet68 ("We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us." Henry V.)
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I got an idea for the FBI: Arrest people for crimes instead of stealing people’s stuff.


18 posted on 12/03/2025 9:14:01 AM PST by Dr.Deth
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Sounds reasonable... This dude should’ve been taken down a long time ago... Frankly... He’s likely a patsy who the ‘drug cartel’ disposed of a long time ago... They’re likely busy looking for a dead person when the real criminals... The Sinaloa Cartel continue on with their criminal ways. Taking down this white dude will have no effect on the Sinaloa leaders.


19 posted on 12/03/2025 9:47:33 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: jerod; Diana in Wisconsin; Larry Lucido; tet68; PeterPrinciple; Gay State Conservative; ...
Just sitting on the porch watching the news, reading the news and doing some paperwork. 71 degrees on the porch.

$13 million with no roof?

I've got a 1998 BMW Z3 2.8L Roadster Convertible that I got for $6000 with 107K miles in 2014. Looking over the Miatas I got a deal. Its at 135K now. I'm a lucky guy. ;-)

In "GoldenEye" with Pierce Brosnan as James Bond that was his ride out in Florida. The color is Atlantic Bleu or something like that.

Actually its exactly that. Just FYI I can do tuneups and maintenance but you're not getting under there to do an oil change without a jack. Not a chance. ;-)

I go for groceries and to take the little lady out to the beach.

If it rains, top up, little drips come down sort of where the wind vents would be, if it had wind vents.

So I don't take it out in the rain but if I needed a 'Scrip from CVS for my wife I'd put up the top and be back in 10 minutes with maybe a few drips inside.

But NO ROOF for $13 million? Ridiculous. No worries - my car is always in the garage.

It was really a present for my wife's 60th Bday - she wanted a convertible and she knew how to use a stick shift.

Turned out I'd be the driver but again, no worries, she's got a 2024 Acura RDX with everything with room for anything she wants to take up or bring down and the main thing she can drive 600 miles to North Carolina to see her Mom, her family, our daughter and granddaughter and stay a couple of different months a year in comfort and with no reliability issues.

Sweet.

I just take care of me and the animals while she's gone.

Still, to be honest, when she's here the things I don't have to do is amazing. When she's gone I see something, know it needs doing but its not getting done unless I do it.

I really miss her when she's gone. ;-)

Life is good. ;-)


6 grand vs 13 million? At least mine came with a roof with a couple of drips. ;-)

TYR? Just saying hello. Really this was all for you. Been a little while. Sorry - been busy. ;-)

20 posted on 12/03/2025 11:22:09 AM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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