US agents helped launder millions in drug proceeds

[Judi Lynn]

US agents helped launder millions in drug proceeds
By OLGA RODRIGUEZ
(January 9th, 2012 @ 5:12pm)

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's government allowed a group of undercover U.S. anti-drug agents and their Colombian informant to launder millions in cash for a powerful Mexican drug trafficker and his Colombian cocaine supplier, according to documents made public Monday.

The Mexican magazine Emeequis published portions of documents that describe how Drug Enforcement Administration agents, a Colombian trafficker-turned-informant and Mexican federal police officers in 2007 infiltrated the Beltran Leyva drug cartel and a cell of money launderers for Colombia's Valle del Norte cartel in Mexico.

The group of officials conducted at least 15 wire transfers to banks in the United States, Canada and China and smuggled and laundered about $2.5 million in the United States. They lost track of much of that money.

In his testimony, the DEA agent in charge of the operation says DEA agents posing as pilots flew at least one shipment of cocaine from Ecuador to Madrid through a Dallas airport.

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[rfranklin]

1. Question: If we can execute American citizens without a trial, why not these drug czars?

Just wondering.

[Nihil]

4. Answer: Random American citizens don't have the cash to buy off the executioners.

>> The group of officials conducted at least 15 wire transfers to banks in the United States,
>> Canada and China and smuggled and laundered about $2.5 million in the United States.
>> They lost track of much of that money.

"lost track" eh?

[stockholmer]

2. The DEA and the ATF are utterly rogue systemic threats to the Western Hemisphere

[bemildred]

3. Gosh, who knew?