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Friday, March 3, 2017

Money laundering: From the Sinaloa Cartel to LA’s fashion district

Original article available at YouTube
Posted by El Wachito

In September 2014, more than 1,000 federal and local agents raided 75 different locations in Los Angeles’ fashion district. They seized around $90 million dollars, most of it in bulk cash, from the Sinaloa Cartel. Authorities claim it was the biggest money seizure in U.S. history. Correspondent Mike Kirsch examined the issue in this feature documentary for Americas Now.


69 comments:

  1. And there goes the legacy. Who money would this most likely belong too? I say El Chapo and co. If El Mayo is connected to this then goodbye menores.

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    1. They have more money that that moron

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    2. Why are you using menores. It gets used by damasos men in 1 article,now everyone uses it. Strange

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    3. It is the name I choose to use. Their enemies use it.

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    4. BB I HEARD LOS CUATES DE SINALOA PUT IN A PETITION TO SING IN FEDERAL PRISON TO EL CHAPO. IN NY...... CAN U GUYS FIND OUT INFO IN THIS THANKS BB.

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    5. The sinaloa cartel is composed of a thousands of drug-lords, not only el chapo

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    6. Thank you Wachito. You have to understand that Sinaloa isn't run by one person. Ay capos a lo pendejo. Cuando cae un sale otro, y otro y otro. It's a complicated structure that isn't easy to infuriate.

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    7. @10:29 BB contributors have better things to do then confirming if a carrido band is going to get to sing for El Chapo in federal prison. I'll give you your answer right here: not a chance in hell. Where do you people come up with this stuff? El Chapo isn't in Puente Grande with the warden and guards under his thumb doing whatever he'd like. That's over. He's not in Mexico anymore. He won't be getting any special privileges. In fact, an inmate like him will get far fewer privileges than others. So please, don't waste BB's time asking really stupid questions like this. Thanks.

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    8. No chingues chapo can't get his wife to see him... u think los cuates will be singing in federal prison... te digo con esta raza

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    9. Infuriate or infiltrate? Or Both?

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    10. Can you give us the names of the top fifty? And tell us where they operate? Who is in charge of the Puerto Penasco Plaza? How about Sonoyta? Nogales?

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    11. 3:58 yep . He will be lucky to get a radio . Anybody he knows would bee a fool to show up to see him . Anybody he knows lives off illegal money and don't want to be looked at . I the usa you are supposed to account for ANY assets you have and how you got them . "Washed money" has a funny way of being noticed once the federal government starts looking at you . I was knew Chapo I certainly wouldn't visit him . Maybe Sean Penn and the soap actress .

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    12. 7:31 Komrad Paul Manafort, a political campaign manager received about 14 million dollars in Ukrainia, "from Russia, With Love", never reported anythin' to anybody, but receipts were found and guess what, Komrade Manafort ended his "political campain managing" same as komrade PhD Carter page and komrade michael flynn.
      --Problem is narcos use their money to live, Kremlin agents get it to betray the US.

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    13. LOOK STUPID SAME GUY HERE WHO ASKED BB TO FIND OUT IF IT WAS TRUE I DAAAM WELL NO ITS TRUE THAT LOS CUATES DE SINALOA ASKED FOR A PETITION DUMB ASS THATS WHY ITS CALLED A PETITION . DAAM WELL WE NO HE IS NOT IN MEXICO BUT HERE IS GREAT U.S.A MONEY TALKS ALSO BUT IN THE LOW LOW A GREAT PETITION WITH A COUPLE OF MILLION DOLLARS TRUST ME IT WILL GET GRANTED IN N.Y. HAVE A GOOD DAY MR I NO IT ALL.

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    14. Are you guys dumb. People can go to jails/prisons to play for prisons. Like Johnny Cash

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    15. 358pm where not in Kansas anymore

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    16. Folsom prison blues

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  2. It was from la familia michoacana

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  3. Wow it's obvious that the CDS has been weakened financially that explains the fractured and fighting each other

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  4. On onother note. CJNG killed 11 people in veracruz with a narco manta

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    1. Damn...Getting killed with a narco manta sounds painful..

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    2. man that's one killer narco wants, I've heard of people getting killed with , guns, knives etc. but never anyone with a narco manta especially 11, you'd think it would have torn apart one the first one, or with be too soft and flexible - El Sol Prendido

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    3. Damn!! Who knew a narco manta could kill 11 people? I bet those mofos died after reading all that shitty spelling and punctuation. You read that shit then you die on the 7th day like in "The Ring".

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  5. Good one, thanks Wachito.

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  6. Well aeems like CCTV shot themselves in the foot by asking uncomfortable questions (will Chapos arrest make a dent in the flow of drugs?). This means they and their journalists will be barred from any official interaction with public officials and excluded from the flow of carefully managed leaks with which officiala keep journalists alive.

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  7. The money seized was not chump change. Definitely a blow to the cartel. But it's a loss which cartels have. Especially the Sinaloa.
    They took a hit but will not hurt them.
    Curious as to when this report ( raid) occurred?
    Good informative piece Borderland beat.
    And to think how many more lucrative ways to launder money exists.
    Guess one has to be clever to operate at such levels.

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    1. Try reading the article it says literally in the first sentence it happened in 2014...

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    2. First sentence of the article says the raid happened Sept. 2014

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    3. Yes had been posted already.

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  8. It is stupid to think that the arrest of El Chapo will not change things.

    The cartels were allowed to grow so much that's why when a boss goes down another one is ready to take over. But eventually they will suffer.

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    1. No change in stemming flow of narcotics with chapos arrest and extradition. Yes there are key figures to replace. Moreover infighting and power struggles do occur like any company. Governments are involved however to make the fortunes. Let's not expect this to ever end. Just new players where one falls.
      Same shit everyday where currency is king!

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  9. Mencho took over all of sinaloa

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    1. 6:34 yeah, aviéntale los calzones a la Mencha, a ver qué te da.

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    2. Stop smoking it n slow it up hah

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    3. La Mencha cant even control Guadalajara lmao

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  10. Miami-NY Build On Rotten Money! Can't Hide That:) All Your Condos, Homes.

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  11. Old news mencho should be know as menso because he can't touch El M he was sell drugs when menso was still breast feeding

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    1. Ya we... give it up. El mayo ya está viejito, he's just not trying to get caught.

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  12. Callejones suck now,its getting too expensive.

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    1. They always been no good

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    2. Not is not your just cheap

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    3. I am cheap I refuse to buy cheap knock offs like some of my paisas do just work hard and save buy the real stuff believe me u will feel better

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    4. Just taxing the chinese, they own the west. And the midwest, and all the rest, slave communist labor was key.
      Tone Loc, Wild Thing/youtube

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    5. Callejones will be done with all the gentrification in dtla

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  13. Menso the tweak might of took you over but not sinaloa

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  14. Take a look at mensos pic not the one that everyones seen onother one his face is all sucked up from all that tweak

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  15. Mencho and his supporters are tweaks..michoacacas are mostly all tweaks too

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  16. Arriba la revolucion jijos del pedorro..

    Lil' Pancho Villa

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  17. CBP They let them pass, so they can crack down el clavo! FEDS ROLLED IN DEEP WITH AIR SUPPORT,it was hot of Border Patrol in Chula Juana.

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  18. Why did you not post my comment. You are the only moderater that doesn't post my comments. I never say anything vulgar or rude or anything what's your problem?

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    1. @7:45 How can I answer your comment if I have no idea what your comment was.

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    2. 😂😂😂

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  19. Sinaloa will always b on top

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  20. Looks ominous for Mexico's economy!In Mexico foreign investors hold around $100 billion of the country’s local-currency government debt, the most for any emerging market economy. That’s almost 20 times what it was 20 years ago. They also hold billions of euros worth of corporate bonds, which are also showing signs of strain, prompting some Mexican business leaders to call for “new programs” to be implemented before the situation causes “a large-scale crisis” among Mexican companies.
    The most ominous sign yet came last week when Bloomberg reported sources saying that the Bank of Mexico (or Banxico, as it is referred to) had sought a swap line from the Federal Reserve in case of “liquidity problems,” which immediately triggered furious denials from Banxico. “I can say clearly and unequivocally that we are not in the process of asking for any credit line from any authority,” said the central bank’s governor, Agustin Carstens, who has postponed by six months his departure from the bank, initially scheduled for May.
    Basically, Mexico's central bank is asking the American Federal Reserve for a line of credit! Swap pesos for American $$$$. However, with the risk of a peso collapse how many US$ per peso would the FEd bank give, if any!

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    1. It was a very stupid mistake to extradite El Chapo. Do you really think anyone in U.S. appreciates that? Very dumb mistake

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    2. I am not an economist and don't know how international money transactions work, but given what little I understand..."Could a "creative" deal be struck for the devalued Mexican peso pay for Trump's wall?"

      I understand that it would be a "smoke and mirrors" operation to save face for Mexico and maybe keep it from collapsing into total chaos.... including a violent revolution.

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  21. Sierra santana brother killed

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  22. What is going on in Cuauhtemoc,,
    1st party sources have stated that el Cabo is at war with el 80.

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    1. The new Chihuahua government/governor is looking for el 80 as a top priority to imprison him. Perhaps it's not El Cabo fighting against el 80???

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    2. 8:30 que se pongan en la madre, I don't give a fack.
      Party of No.

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  23. Looks like cjng is taking a few blows of their own

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  24. Mexico will give $54,000,000 dollars to mexican in US. To help them stay in US

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    1. 3:52-Doesn't make any sense.Those funds would be better used for the 1's coming back reluctantly or better utilized for the people that need it more in Mexico.

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    2. 3:52 you are a facking LIAR!
      The mexican government has never given anything to any mexicans in foreign countries, they always get charged for everything, unless 'lip service' is really that expensive.

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  25. The callejones are mostly Asian an middle eastern owned hire chilangos to work and mostly Latinos and blacks shop there but its been real slow lately people are scare ice will show up

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  26. Sad to see that in 3 years there hasn't been a bigger takedown sad to see that the feds live in the past
    Obviously cartels are winning this "war". Had this been a real "war" the USA would of pulled out a long time ago. It's time to let mexico take care of itself, withdraw the troops, shut down the DEA and put the money I to education and infrastructure. Drugs do the job of population control for the bottom third of our citizens.

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    1. The war on drugs benefit all the warriors on it for their high salaries, it helps trim the competition, imprison the criminals burros y mulas that move stuff into the US, helps identify the bigger capos that rob the real owners of the business of their profits, recovers a lot of bounty for the warriors to split to have nice vacations and christmasses, helps keep the money coming to the real offshoring vulture capitalistas...
      --No way is there anybody ending the "war for profit on drugs"

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  27. Hey Chivis posted the story when it happened....

    http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2014/09/feds-discover-65m-in-la-garment.html

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