Category: Drug Trafficking

  • The Wolves of Wall Street

    The Wolves of Wall Street

    The most interesting character among the players of the Sarasota ‘hyena pack’—it’s a professional designation used by law enforcement and financial fraud specialists— is Ramy El Batrawi. Plus, he’s still active. Ramy El-Batrawi has been around major cocaine transactions for decades, yet he appears to have emerged unscathed.  He is untouchable and knows it. He…

  • Dancing with Mr. ‘D’

    Dancing with Mr. ‘D’

    Trump, RussiaGate & transnational organized crime In June of 2019 Federal authorities discovered twenty tons of cocaine at the Port of Philadelphia aboard a giant container ship, the “MSC Gayane.” The drugs were found in seven shipping containers. How they came to be aboard a giant 1000-foot long and ten-story high  container ship,  Bloomberg magazine…

  • Deep Dive into Sarasota Deep State

    Deep Dive into Sarasota Deep State

    “Sarasota County is to Republicans what Mena, Arkansas was to Clinton-era Democrats: one-party rule enforcing a level of secrecy necessary for large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering operations to flourish.” Sarasota grifter Andrew Badolato (and maybe even Steve Bannon!) will stand in the dock of  the Federal Courthouse of the Southern District of New York…

  • A Container Ship, the Russian Mob, & 20 Tons of Cocaine

    A Container Ship, the Russian Mob, & 20 Tons of Cocaine
  • Cartel behind 20-ton drug move in Philadelphia to skate on charges

    Cartel behind 20-ton drug move in Philadelphia to skate on charges

    A Russian-based transnational organized crime drug cartel is responsible for the 20 tons of cocaine seized in Philadelphia in June. But because the organization is Donald Trump’s biggest and most reliable backer in the 2020 Presidential election, there is virtually no likelihood any major figure in the group will ever face charges.   Today the…

  • THE LATEST COUP IN BOLIVIA & “OPERATION CONDOR”

    THE LATEST COUP IN BOLIVIA & “OPERATION CONDOR”

    Coming on the heels of weeks of unrest in Chile, this week’s coup in Bolivia has obvious geopolitical ramifications, as well as echoes of that country’s infamous ‘Cocaine Coup’ in 1980. While researching “Barry & ‘the boys,” I spent time with a man who had been U.S. pro-consul in Bolivia in the 1980’s, and a close…

  • 140 Days After the Perfect Crime

    140 Days After the Perfect Crime

    It’s been 140 days since the second largest drug bust in American history went down in the waters off-shore of the Port of Philadelphia. Agents from a multi-agency Federal task force swarmed aboard a two block-long container ship, the MSC GAYANE, the second largest in the world. It marked the beginning of Containergate. They found…

  • Gangster Planet IV

    Gangster Planet IV
  • The Senator, the Billionaire Pedophile, & the Fugitive Oligarch

    The Senator, the Billionaire Pedophile,  & the Fugitive Oligarch

    The Senator is ‘George Mitchell.’ The billionaire pedophile is ‘Jeffrey Epstein.’ The fugitive oligarch is “Viktor Kozeny.”  But first, a word about an Able Seaman…   He hasn’t been heard from in over two months. IVAN Durasevic, 29, a seaman on the container ship MSC Gayane, which was seized carrying almost 20 tons of cocaine…