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As Businesses Flee, Jerry Brown's California Attracts A Different Kind Of "Investment"
Investor's Business Daily ^
| 12 September 2014
| Editorial
Posted on 09/14/2014 5:41:23 PM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Immigration: When California Gov. Jerry Brown hung out the "all welcome" sign for illegals, Mexico's drug cartels heard him loud and clear. Raids on Thursday left lawmen declaring Los Angeles a cash-laundering mecca. Roping off 100 blocks of downtown Los Angeles this week, federal agents from the U.S. attorney's office raided roughly 70 garment district businesses along with a few houses in tony Westwood and Beverly Hills. The suspected crime was laundering money for Mexico's Sinaloa cartel. Agents hauled out $65 million in cash stuffed in duffel bags, suitcases and boxes, some of it blood-spattered. The cash came from hostage ransoms, drug sales and alien-smuggling fees. Some of those arrested were charged with "various immigration offenses," according to the affidavit.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; cannabis; colorado; drugs; investment; jerrybrown; libertarians; losangeles; marijuana; medicalmarijuana; mexicandrugcartels; mexico; pot; rockymountainhigh; sinaloa
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Jerry Brown must be so proud of himself.
To: IBD editorial writer
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posted on
09/14/2014 5:42:43 PM PDT
by
Battle Axe
(Repent: for the coming of the Lord is soon.)
To: IBD editorial writer
I really don’t think Jerry Brown gives a hoot in Hell about it, honestly.
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posted on
09/14/2014 5:43:22 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Just because I'm paranoid, it doesn't mean I'm wrong.)
To: IBD editorial writer
Wait until La Raza starts some civil rights riots.
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posted on
09/14/2014 5:43:50 PM PDT
by
angry elephant
(Endangered species in Seattle)
To: IBD editorial writer
Jerry is a creep alright, but in all fairness every governor since 1990 has been in on this fiasco. None of them defended our sovereign state’s borders.
Brown inviting the Mexican President over for a BJ and kisses didn’t help his standing, that’s for sure.
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posted on
09/14/2014 5:44:41 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
To: IBD editorial writer
Roping off 100 blocks in Downtown L.A....and Obama wasnt Invited to SPEAK??
Jerry Browns strategy is to let the chips fall.....everywhere.
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posted on
09/14/2014 5:46:14 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
(Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
To: IBD editorial writer
Sold, bought and paid for...Moonbeam. This supposed Jesuit, loves all species of gutter slime.
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posted on
09/14/2014 5:46:18 PM PDT
by
RedHeeler
To: IBD editorial writer
These raids were federal raids, but yes, Jerry hung out the welcome sign.
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posted on
09/14/2014 5:46:20 PM PDT
by
umgud
(I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
To: DoughtyOne
Why be fair?
Brown takes it to anew level.
LA is just Mexico now, with corruption and gang murder commonplace.
Never let him forget it.
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posted on
09/14/2014 5:48:27 PM PDT
by
Regulator
To: IBD editorial writer; Travis McGee
They roped off a 100-block area for this and there was no media coverage?
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posted on
09/14/2014 5:52:08 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: angry elephant
Wait until La Raza starts some civil rights riots ruling the state of California. (California Norte)
To: Regulator
Doesn’t bother me that he gets blamed. It just bothers me when others don’t.
Gray Davis actually held a celebration on the Capital steps when the white populace in the state fell below 50%.
Think about that! Incredible!
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posted on
09/14/2014 5:56:36 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
To: GeronL
Heck, they could rope off all of Chicago for a weekend shootout and there would be no MSM coverage ... it doesn’t fit the script given to them.
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posted on
09/14/2014 6:04:09 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Consistency: Every (all) top level manager in the Administration is a pathological liar.)
To: Viking2002
“I really don’t think Jerry Brown gives a hoot in Hell about it, honestly.”
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Brown doesn't care, being a RAT he is solely concerned concerned with himself.
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posted on
09/14/2014 6:14:48 PM PDT
by
mongo141
(Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
To: IBD editorial writer
Democrats have worked hard to destroy California.
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posted on
09/14/2014 6:18:21 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
To: IBD editorial writer
How fiendishly genius! The 65 million is divvied up amongst the various government indites, The Cartels are put on notice that they are going to have to pay to play ( campaign and “charity” donations) with the powers that be in order to keep raids to minimum. Though, there will always be some, sort of like quarterly tax collection. A doped up electorate pushed to the polls to keep the Dems in power. Millions quietly living in squalor thinking of nothing more then their next score, a Progressive paradise.
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posted on
09/14/2014 6:23:07 PM PDT
by
MCF
(If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
To: Regulator
Drugs are the cause. If the
gringos weren't so insistent on getting high, stoned, whatever, and if they could FACE REALITY without the drugs, there would be NO MARKET for those Mexicali
drogas.
The Mexican government ARE the cartel. So are all the governments south of our border. Without political backing there would BE no "cartel" in ANY country.
Supply and demand.
Americans NOT on drugs...WHAT a concept. The cartels would be forced " to get outta Dodge" for lack of demand.
To: Viking2002
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posted on
09/14/2014 6:28:23 PM PDT
by
rdcbn
To: All
Drugs are the cause. If the gringos weren't so insistent on getting high, stoned, whatever, and if they could FACE REALITY without the drugs, there would be NO MARKET for those Mexicali
drogas.
The Mexican government ARE the cartel. So are all the governments south of our border. Without political backing there would BE no "cartel" in ANY country.
Supply and demand.
Americans NOT on drugs...WHAT a concept. The cartels would be forced " to get outta Dodge" for lack of demand.
That would be nice.
To: Iron Munro
Democrats have worked hard to destroy California.True enough.
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