Excellent comments David!
from http://timelines.ws/20thcent/1998_12.HTML :
1998 Dec 8, Paul Edward Hindelang Jr. (51) agreed to forfeit to the US government $50 million that he had acquired dealing drugs in the 1970s. He had helped pioneer the "mother ship" smuggling technique. (WSJ, 6/2/99, p.A1)
Wondering all kinds of things about that investigation...