Before anyone knew -El Chapo-, everyone knew Pablo Escobar. He was the King of Cocaine, the wealthiest and most violent criminal in the world. By the 1980s his Medellin Drug Cartel was responsible for smuggling several tons of cocaine into America each and every day, killing thousands of people along the way. The end result was hundreds of millions of dollars in cash profits. In response, and as part of President Reagan's War on Drugs, Congress created the Money Laundering Act of 1986. The goal was to take the profit out of Escobar's business. And the plan was working. Drug Money seizures...
Before anyone knew -El Chapo-, everyone knew Pablo Escobar. He was the King of Cocaine, the wealthiest and most violent criminal in the world. By the ...