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China’s Money Launderers Are Bankrolling America’s Fentanyl Epidemic
Yahoo News! ^ | Mon, September 8, 2025 | Max Meizlish and Elaine K. Dezenski

Posted on 09/08/2025 5:08:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Money laundering isn’t new — and neither is China’s role in it. Millennia ago, Chinese merchants developed schemes to “clean” the profits of commercial trade and avoid taxation. Today, their successors are doing much the same. Only now, they’re laundering billions through the U.S. financial system and fueling one of the deadliest fentanyl-fueled drug crises in American history.

In a step in the right direction, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (known as FinCEN) issued a sweeping advisory on Aug. 28 warning that Chinese money laundering networks now represent “one of the most significant money laundering threat actors facing the U.S. financial system.” Few Americans have heard of these Chinese networks, but they are using our local, regional and national banks to scrub Mexican cartel cash clean. The government must do more to shut them down.

The numbers are staggering. Alongside its advisory, FinCEN released a financial trend analysis based on more than 137,000 suspicious activity reports filed between January 2020 and December 2024. Those reports flagged transactions totaling more than $312 billion across more than 1,000 financial institutions in the United States. That includes $33 billion in cash deposits linked in part to Chinese nationals with no verifiable income, $53.7 billion in questionable real estate transactions, and $9.7 billion in potentially fraudulent import-export schemes.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidencrimefamily; brics; ccp; china; crime; fentanyl; hunterbiden; moneylaunderers
Just like FDR's maternal grandfather.
1 posted on 09/08/2025 5:08:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I watched Cocaine Fiends (1935) last night.

Look at 1:10 of this trailer. A Chinese dope peddler and his buddhist idol signal of someone intruding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSCSPP02yoM


2 posted on 09/08/2025 5:17:16 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: nickcarraway
You don't have to go that far back.

DEA laundering millions of dollars for the drug cartels Dec 5, 2011 - NY Times

Report: Homeland Security Officials Took Millions in Bribes to 'Look the Other Way' on Drug Cartels December 31, 2016

3 posted on 09/08/2025 5:21:19 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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To: nickcarraway
Death penalty for traffickers

Like in China.....execution on the spot...funds confiscated...bill for the bullet to relatives...organs for sale by the state.

4 posted on 09/08/2025 5:26:40 PM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
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To: nickcarraway

Using Canadian banks.


5 posted on 09/08/2025 5:30:30 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nickcarraway

Seems like some of the DOGE type geniuses could use AI to ID and stop the money launderers — there must be patterns and tells for something of this scale. I have to assume that some highly placed “public servants” don’t want it stopped.


6 posted on 09/08/2025 6:07:14 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: nickcarraway

The military should be watching the blue state western ports.
They’re all in cahoots with China…ie the Port of Portland, Seattle and those in Newscumland.


7 posted on 09/08/2025 6:19:20 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: nickcarraway

If China is “fueling one of the deadliest fentanyl-fueled drug crises in American history”, what were the other fentanyl-fueled drug crises, and did China fuel them too?


8 posted on 09/08/2025 8:33:07 PM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words? )
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To: doc maverick

China doesn’t ship actual fentanyl, they ship the precursors, which are essentially the ingredients to make fentanyl, and they ship them to Mexico and other countries like Venezuela, not US ports.


9 posted on 09/08/2025 8:36:22 PM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words? )
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To: nickcarraway

The fentanyl epidemic has only one cause: undesirables among us CHOOSE to use it, or other drugs to which fentanyl may have been added. Bad choices frequently have bad consequences. Stop saving them with Narcan and we will be rid of them.

And execute all drug dealers and traffickers, from street level to Kingpin. Within a year of their capture, prosecution, trial, appeal, and execution to be completed.


10 posted on 09/10/2025 9:00:55 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: JimRed

That is not entirely true. Doctors also prescribe power painkillers irresponsibly, and don’t give patients the proper support. I’ve seen many cases - professional athletes taking painkillers after their bodies are pounded. Someone gets into a car accident.


11 posted on 09/10/2025 10:05:54 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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