Posted on 09/11/2014 5:25:25 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities arrested nine people and seized about $90 million Wednesday in raids in the fashion district of Los Angeles, marking an unprecedented crackdown on Mexican cartels' increasing reliance on international trade to launder money from drug sales in the United States.
About 1,000 law enforcement officers fanned out across the city's downtown to search dozens of businesses suspected of taking bulk cash funneled by drug cartels for clothing exported to Mexico.
The raids came after three separate federal indictments in the biggest investigation to date into trade-based drug money laundering, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.
Of the approximately $90 million seized, some $70 million of it was in cash, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercedsunstar.com ...
“Taking bulk cash funneled by drug cartels for clothing exported to Mexico.”
Can someone explain how this technically works?
I feel certain this is simple but...I don’t get it.
They should buy the AC casinos and hotels.
Former CIA covert operations officer, Mike Baker, on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” said that he believes there is “a lot of communication” between ISIS and Mexican drug cartels.......as well as similar efforts in the past by al Qaeda.
“We’ve had good intel over the years about al Qaeda, about their efforts to coordinate with Mexican cartels...in an effort to try to exploit our southern border” he reported, adding that a terrorist group like ISIS “absolutely” knows about the lack of security on the border.
Baker stated he believes there is “a lot of communication” between ISIS and drug cartels.
Bake emphasized that “the cartels are a business ... if there’s a revenue stream they can exploit, they will, and the extremists understand that.” (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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REFERENCE Obama's henchman over at USCIS (a DHS agency) is rubber-stamping free-for-all approvals of border jumpers from 144 countries (countries teeming w/ drug cartels).
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ARE MEXICAN CARTELS BUYING US CITIZENSHIP? USCIS rubber-stamper Leon Rodriguez, a recent Obama appointee, oversees the legitimization of the border swarm.....emanating from 144 countries.
Rodriguez also administers EB-5 visas as head of USCIS (A DHS agency).....EB-5's are said to involve major threats to US national security:
BACKSTORY In an earlier statement----citing a Homeland Security Investigations memo----Sen Charles Grassley said the oversight federal agency ICE identified key vulnerabilities in EB-5 visas:
1) Export of sensitive technology/economic espionage.
2) Use by foreign government agents/espionage.
3) Use by terrorists.
4) Investment fraud by regional center.
5) Investment fraud by investors.
6) Fraud conspiracies by investors and regional center.
7) Illicit finance/money laundering.
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Eye-opening exchanges on this topic at the recent House Judiciary hearing on immigration.
<><> Patriot Cong Randy Forbes (Rep-VA) said Americans need to know if violent gang members are walking their streets. Forbes asked UCIS--a DHS agency--headed by Obama appointee Leon Rodrigues---whether the agency asked applicants about gang membership---and when they invariably reply no, how does the agency know whether it's true or not?
The calculated Rodriguez would not reveal information---Forbes insisted on knowing "do you even ask them if they're gang members."
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Rodriguez's confirmation hearings revealed he was a board member of Casa Maryland---a latino-centric advocacy group---pushing for unlimited immigration, and has connections to nationwide immigrant groups.
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ACTION--CONTACT FBI TIPS PAGE WEB SITE---YOU MAY REMAIN ANONYMOUS---https://tips.fbi.gov
<><> Taxpayers demand Rodriguez, USCIS, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, La Raza, and other tax-funded latino groups, be investigated. Supboena official filings, phone records, emails, snail mail copies, hard drives, bank accounts, checking accounts, credit cards, debit cards, wire transfers, social media contacts, and the like.
<><> Taxpayers demand to know if govt factotums like Rodriguez, and the aforementioned tax-funded groups, are consorting with violent organizations advocating the overthrow of the US govt.
<><> TAXPAYERS demand to know who these people are communicating with, and who is directing their activities.
so a Mexican drug organization sells Mexican made drugs in return for us cash.
So they have a big mountain of us cash that they want to turn into funds for use in Mexico.
so they take the US cash to the US business and say, I would like to buy a bunch of us clothes, but please export them to Mexico.
So the US clothes show up in Mexico, where they are then sold for Mexican cash cash then is deposited into their accounts in Mexico and then they use it for biz.
Is that it?
The problem is $90 million is too low. You have to do billions if you want the slap on the wrist fine that the banksters get for drug money laundering.
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