Hezbollah profits from US drug market via Mexico cartel
Beirut bank seen as a hub of Hezbollah’s drug money financing
What if we scrubbed Wachovia like we did the Lebanese Canadian Bank?
Indeed.
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Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels Sometimes the laundering goes on for years while DEA pretends to be doing something. Meanwhile, BATF has busy been running guns to the drug cartels. I’m sure the drug [...] The Observer provides an excellent summation of a story we’ve long followed here, about how a major US bank laundered drug cartel money. You would expect Wachovia executives would have been arrested and gone to prison but no, the bank (now owned by Wells Fargo) just received a slap-on-the-wrist fine and promised to sin [...] You read that headline right. ATF has been monitoring gun purchases in the US and allowing assault weapons to be smuggled into Mexico, supposedly so they could track them (inquiring minds want to know if this policy instead was due to massive corruption within ATF, what better way to smuggle in weapons than via [...] ATF gets a phone tip about smuggled weapons A senior agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—better known as the ATF—told CBS and the Center for Public Integrity that ATF supervisors instructed agents to not intercept weapons made in suspicious sales, but to monitor them to see where the weapons ended [...] Federal authorities announced charges today against 34 Arizonans accused of buying about 700 guns in gun stores in the state on behalf of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel. This has been speculated on for months by both pro- and anti- gun supporters. Now we have what appears to be actual evidence that drug cartels are [...] Bank Info Security “It is easy to forget and/or never really truly understand why this is such an important issue if you only see anti-money laundering as a paperwork detail,” Sullivan says. “Just look at what is going on at the border currently; you have got the drug lords and their gangs who [...] Insurgent Consciousness Drug money funds much of the operations of the main antagonists to American foreign policy including the FARC, the Mexican cartels, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban. Drug profits are so high for the simple fact that the US and other countries have decided to make them illegal and disrupt their production. The [...] Among them: Dennis Godfrey, a spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management’s Arizona office, said roughly a dozen signs were posted earlier this month along the Sonoran Desert National Monument advising that travel in the area is not recommended due to “active drug and human” smuggling. The signs are not far from where a [...] |  | ||||
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