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Originally Posted by Rob
From Wikipedia:
" At the height of its power, the Medellín drug cartel was smuggling fifteen tons of cocaine per day, worth more than half a billion dollars, into the United States.
According to Roberto, he and his brother's operation spent $1000 per week purchasing rubber bands to wrap the stacks of cash, storing most of it in their warehouses; 10% had to be written off per year because of "spoilage" by rats that crept in at night and nibbled on the hundred dollar bills."  |
That's fucking insane, isn't it?
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Originally Posted by _Richard_
crazy to think all these intelligence agencies just had no idea about half a billion dollars of cocaine moving into the country per day... ahem
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Oh, they had an idea... Just couldn't do much about it. If you have twenty guys in three hundred locations all making coke, not much a handful of agents from intelligence agencies can do about it.
Then factor in the corruption.... You can put your life at risk by arrested a man driving a truck full of coke or you can pocket a thousand bucks.... Hard decision.