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Smashing the Sinaloa cartel: Major coup for DEA as agents seize $6MILLION cash[tr]
Daily Mail ^ | March 9, 2018 | DailyMail

Posted on 03/09/2018 12:16:09 PM PST by bgill

Federal prosecutors have indicted 75 people including 40 in San Diego in a massive drugs and money operation which has been called the biggest money laundering investigation ever in the Californian city. The defendants allegedly laundered drug proceeds from the Sinaloa cartel for years, U.S. Attorney Adam Braverman said at a news conference in downtown San Diego. He said the network was responsible for laundering tens of millions of dollars in drug profits over the past three years. 'We have siphoned the cash and life out of a San Diego-based international money laundering organization with ties to the Sinaloa cartel,' Braverman said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: California
KEYWORDS: dea; drugs; elchapo; sinaloa; sinaloacartel; wod
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To: gaijin; marktwain

Could I get you to take a gander at post 15..?

Super weird AR! >_<


21 posted on 03/09/2018 1:03:17 PM PST by gaijin
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To: txnativegop

The investigators need to look at the banks!!!Read about the banks BCCI for one that set up shop in Mena Arkansas during Clinton’s time as Governor. Just so happened that drugs and money were flowing thru town as well.


22 posted on 03/09/2018 1:04:34 PM PST by free from tyranny
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To: gaijin

BB guns- cannot be anything but BB guns- this is Calif semi sarcasm


23 posted on 03/09/2018 1:04:58 PM PST by Nailbiter
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To: Nailbiter

Agreed. It’s not an AR.


24 posted on 03/09/2018 1:05:53 PM PST by The Toll
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To: gaijin

what is with gangbangers and the weird guns, they are tools not status symbols.

Actually to most people they are tools


25 posted on 03/09/2018 1:06:37 PM PST by Nailbiter
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To: gaijin

Could be an AR designed for a lefty, where the bolt release and selector lever is on the other side.


26 posted on 03/09/2018 1:07:48 PM PST by corlorde
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To: The Toll

It’s a toy of some kind on the bottom. The selector lever in the wrong location and no bolt release. It’s a CO2 gun.


27 posted on 03/09/2018 1:09:23 PM PST by The Toll
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To: The Toll

Also, no castle nut on the buffer tube. It’s a BB gun.


28 posted on 03/09/2018 1:11:09 PM PST by The Toll
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To: The Toll

Not an A2 grip. There is no hole at the bottom and no crease line were it attaches to the lower.


29 posted on 03/09/2018 1:12:33 PM PST by The Toll
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To: free from tyranny

They ought to look at banks, but they won’t. There is way too much money involved.

Everybody loves money.

Therein lay the problem.


30 posted on 03/09/2018 1:14:17 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: bgill

6 million is petty change and may be less than “acceptable” loss to the multi-billion dollar Narco “corporation”.


31 posted on 03/09/2018 1:25:38 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: bgill

HSBC laundered tens of billions and was fined some relatively small amount. $6 million is maybe a weeks worth of business. It’s nothing.


32 posted on 03/09/2018 1:27:25 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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To: AzNASCARfan

It’s a good start.


33 posted on 03/09/2018 1:27:27 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: House Atreides

“Sorry, but $6 million for the cartels is petty change — a minor cost of doing business.”

my first thought, too. $6 mill probably doesn’t even cover that cartel’s annual ammo bill ...


34 posted on 03/09/2018 1:41:14 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: DesertRhino

That’s how we are going to build it - we will confiscate major cartel cash, issue a press release, and get it built at no taxpayer expense.

At that point, you need to start contracting the consulting engineers for assessing a new face on Rushmore.


35 posted on 03/09/2018 1:46:01 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: bgill

California governor & legislators must be in panic mode over this. 8>)


36 posted on 03/09/2018 1:47:24 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: House Atreides
Sorry, but $6 million for the cartels is petty change

I think the term these days is Crumbs.

I guess the amount depends on time. Is it 6 Million per day, per hour? You would have something there. I don't believe they would have said 6 Million if they could have possibly under any scenario said 60 Million or 6 Billion.

37 posted on 03/09/2018 1:47:37 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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To: bgill

6 million?! That’s not much of a smash. That’s like 1 day’s revenue. 75 indictments might sting.


38 posted on 03/09/2018 1:48:48 PM PST by discostu (It's been so long, welcome back my friend, to the show, that never ends.)
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To: gaijin

How dare you post such scary images....


39 posted on 03/09/2018 2:37:56 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: DesertRhino
That’s about 1/2500th of the wealth of Sinaloa. Petty cash.

The authorities hope the raw number sounds so big they can make it look like the War on Drugs isn't continuing to fail.

40 posted on 03/09/2018 3:13:51 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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