Mexican Drug Lord's home after being raided

[Luxman]

Not sure why the numbers are exaggerated, it's probably in the hundreds of millions only. It's probably 22 billion Pesos.
Next time I have a stack of 1 billion dollars in $100 bills, I'll update this thread.

http://leenks.com/link473601.html

 

[vanlee1]

What is it with criminals and golden guns?

Anyway, the piles of money reminded me of Walter White's retirement fund in "Breaking Bad".

 

[Rey C.]

Truly amazing! And considering how much cash he had in his home (that hadn't been laundered), one has to wonder how much more money he had, in the U.S. and other places, that had been laundered. I just saw on Snopes that the amount was closer to $207 million. And it turns out the drug lord was a Chinese-Mexican (Zhenli Ye Gon) who was arrested in Maryland in 2007. Six years after it happened, the Las Vegas Sands (finally) agreed to pay a $47.4 million fine for not reporting large, suspicious money transfers involving Ye Gon (also known as facilitating money laundering). The U.S. government indicted Ye Gon on narcotic charges, but the case was dismissed in 2009 wtf. Interestingly, the Sands is owned by high-power Republican donor and supposed law & order guy facepalm, Sheldon Adelson. No one in the U.S. went to jail over this. No one (that is a big money player) ever does. Did Bloomberg Financial or CNBC ever report this? No, not that I remember. Are you surprised? Hopefully you are not. I'm not.

The people (American "businessmen") connected to money laundering for that other Mexican cartel boss, who kept a bevy of fresh, underage girls as his personal harem/love slaves... none of them went to prison either (AFAIK).

 

[Jagger69]

None of this would have occurred to begin with (the villa, the money, the raid) if drugs were legalized. Read this statement from the article and realize the insanity behind "war on drugs":

The money and valuables found in this one house alone, would be enough to pay for health insurance for every man woman and child in the USA for 12 years!
It is estimated to be approximately 27 more of these houses in Mexico alone. Not to mention the ones in other countries who are enriching themselves in the drug trade. These people have so much money, they make the Arab oil sheiks look like welfare recipients. Their money can buy politicians, cops, judges, whatever they need they just throw down stacks of cash and it is theirs! This is why the drug problem is so difficult to fight.

Bold emphasis is mine. The "drug problem" is so difficult to fight because so many drugs are illegal and, since the consuming public has created a demand for them, that demand is being met with a supply, legality be damned. Duh, imagine that!

 

[Big Poppa Pump]

That is insane. More money than he knew what to do with :eyeso:

 

[Armanaeus]

^ ... And it's still not enough to cover US debt to China. Dammit! ... Ha-ha-ha-ha.

 

[Luxman]

What does 1 billion and 1 trillion in 100 dollar bills look like:

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

 

[Luxman]

double post

 

[Big Poppa Pump]

What does 1 billion and 1 trillion in 100 dollar bills look like:

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

 

[Will E Worm]

Why not raid Artie Lange's home or Snoop Dog's home? They both take drugs.

 

[georges]

Making the pot legal is not gonna solve drug related crimes

 

[Jagger69]

Making the pot legal is not gonna solve drug related crimes

Crimes like what? Driving under the influence of THC? If so, you are correct. However, just like the repeal of Prohibition ended organized crime's involvement with alcohol, why would we not expect similar results from legalization of marijuana?

It just blows me away that anyone would care what I do in the privacy of my own home as long as it does not infringe on either the personal or property rights of others. It's none of anyone's Goddamned business.

 

[Philbert]

Well, it's been almost 2 months since pot became "legal"...grow it, or just buy it for recreational use, or medical use.

I haven't started killing puppies or hitting Liquor stores for reefer cash; I haven't heard a single mention on any Denver News about the alarming increase in DUIs, or bootleg bud trade...or dead puppies.
Medical has been around a LONG time now, and the strains available have been tested, bred to consistency and controlled productivity (this is a weed, and will adapt to adverse conditions or good ones.) The potency of a tiny amount of American grown and created (OK, lots of strains are from all over, and mixed with others and grown separately as well; White Widow is all over, most dispensaries have a strain of White Widow in their stock.) Ass kicking and clean, anyone who actually smoked before is just happy to have danger free access to stash, and no fear of jail for possessing or smoking/eating in various food.
Remember that the largest chunk of income goes to the State and City governments. Funding criminal groups to do the evil that they do ( to paraphrase Blazing Saddles' Harvey Korman) and having turf battles over income generation routes creates the crime. Funding and systems used to move weight are in place and the removal of that situation (easy smuggling, moving hard drugs, and making much more revenue) will stop many aspects of it.

I've freely smoked in many places over the years, but it wasn't legal and caution was needed.
This feels nice...freedom of choice and freedom from fear...so American!
Well, at least here and now...before is forgiven.

 

[Rey C.]

In related news, one of the richest crime bosses in the world has been (re)captured. Head of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has/had a billion dollar plus net worth, with an empire built on drug trafficking, murder for hire, extortion, human trafficking, prostitution, kidnapping and even bootlegging products and pirating movies and music.

CULIACAN, Mexico - After fruitlessly pursuing one of the world's top drug lords for years, authorities finally drew close to Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman using a cellphone found at a house where drugs were stored.

The phone belonging to a Guzman aide was recovered with clues from a U.S. wiretap and provided a key break in the long chase to find Guzman, officials told The Associated Press on Sunday.

Another big leap forward came after police analyzed information from a different wiretap that pointed them to a beachfront condo where the legendary leader of the Sinaloa cartel was hiding, according to a U.S. government official and a senior federal law enforcement official.

When he was at last taken into custody with his beauty-queen wife, Guzman had a military-style assault rifle in the room, but he didn't go for it. <That's unfortunate... >

 

[vanlee1]

El Chapo escaped from prison last time by hiding in a laundry truck. Let's hope he doesn't mastermind another escape any time soon.

 

[Luxman]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...cret-tunnels-grubby-seaside-condo-caught.html

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

None of this would have occurred to begin with (the villa, the money, the raid) if drugs were legalized.

I was going to say the same thing. El Chapo shoulda been a busboy we holler at for more BBQ sauce and napkins. That's his nightmare if drugs were legal without black market profitability. Beer company cartels tossing and turning in their sleep too.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

 

[Rey C.]

For the record, I've been for decriminalizing (de facto legalization) certain drugs for a long time. But I have that belief because I'm not keen on the government telling people what they can or can't do with their own bodies in their own homes, or what they can or can't put in their own bodies in their own homes. Like most libertarians, I also (admittedly) tend to gloss over what the social affects of such a policy would be. I have a certain (somewhat hard) attitude of "you pays your money, you takes your chances" on the after affects. And I'm not certain that decriminalizing or legalizing would remove the criminal element. It might lessen the violence in some cases. But criminal organizations are businesses, just like any other. And when one market becomes less profitable, they simply move to another or choose another form of involvement. If, in addition to marijuana, coke, heroin and meth were legalized/decriminalized, there still has to be suppliers, right? And who would own these suppliers? They wouldn't necessarily be in the U.S., so legalization here would just provide legalized distribution... not production. So we might find that one of El Chapo's many, many shell companies owns the same portion of production that it does now.

Plus, we can't let the lazy media refer to these cartels as just drug dealers. Like any "good" diversified business, they make lots of money from lots of sources. And not all of them could be legalized or should be legalized.

In July, Ulloa told the Guardian Mexican drug cartels made $10 billion last year from the enforced sexual exploitation and enslavement of thousands of women and girls.

It may also simply be a matter of profits. As sources explained to Time and the Guardian, while a drug shipment can be bought and sold a finite number of times, a person can be sold again and again, making sex trafficking extremely lucrative.

 

[Armanaeus]

^ This might be of interest to you: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=95098&KW=drug&PN=1 ... but it seems like you've thought it all through for yourself.