Category: Drug Trafficking

  • The Jeffrey Epstein Social Network Mega Meta scandal

    The Jeffrey Epstein Social Network Mega Meta scandal

    The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is a ‘meta’ scandal that smaller scandals fit into like Russian dolls.  “Meta” means about the thing itself. “Meta news” is news about the news. It reveals the higher network workings of lesser scandals, like the “Container Ship Crime Wave!” scandal, which fits into it neatly. Names in Jeffrey Epstein’s little…

  • The Jeffrey Epstein Social Network & The Container Ship Crime Wave

    The Jeffrey Epstein Social Network & The Container Ship Crime Wave

    What does the Jeffrey Epstein Social Network have to do with the massive 20 tons of cocaine seized on a container ship in Philadelphia a month ago? There are more anomalies in the 20-tons of cocaine seized on a container ship in Philadelphia than in a YouTube video about Area 51. After the cocaine seizure…

  • ‘Highly mysterious’ China company owned both container ships in Philly Port drug busts

    ‘Highly mysterious’ China company owned both container ships in Philly Port drug busts

    El Chapo is so last year.   Meet Second Mate Ivan Durasevic of the container ship MSC Gayane, the world’s newest drug kingpin. In one of the biggest drug busts in American history, Duresevic is the highest-ranking man arrested so far. But some see problems with this scenario. He’s only the ship’s Second Mate. So Ivan’s credit…

  • From Barry Seal to Donald Trump II

    From Barry Seal to Donald Trump II

    Part II of a brief primer about Donald Trump’s connections in the U.S. with transnational organized crime. In addition to his casino deal with Donald Trump, Leslie Greyling— Donald Trump’s multi-million-dollar benefactor in the sale of a Palm Beach mansion to Trump for half its true value—was working on two other casino deals. On the off…

  • From Barry Seal to Donald Trump

    From Barry Seal to Donald Trump

    This is a story about  ‘connections,’ elite deviance and the CIA.  More specifically,  Donald Trump’s connections, a  word which has a long history of usage in organized crime.  As in,  ‘He’s connected.’ A member of the Mafia is known as a ‘made guy.’ Someone who’s ‘connected’ has been vouched for by a ‘made guy,’ who…

  • Gangster Planet 1: The Return of ‘Red Eye’

    Gangster Planet 1: The Return of ‘Red Eye’
  • Carlos Slim, the NY Times, & the trial of El Chapo Guzman

    Carlos Slim, the NY Times, & the trial of El Chapo Guzman

    Former 17-year old beauty queens; diamond-encrusted pistols; cocaine in cans of hot peppers and gallons of cooking oil;  18-wheeler’s and ‘cocaine trains;’ drugged 13- year old girls at $5K a pop; a view of the Brooklyn Bridge through the windows of a cartel stash house. The trial in Brooklyn of El Chapo Guzman, a short…

  • Governments, Gangsters, & the Trial of El Chapo Guzman

    Governments, Gangsters, & the Trial of El Chapo Guzman

    The trial of El Chapo Guzman is as disappointing to criminologists trying to understand the deep structure of the drug trade as a rained-out series between The Yankees and Red Sox is to baseball fans waiting to place bets on who’s going to win the American League. This week in El Chapo’s trial was like…

  • The Lie at the Heart of the Trial of El Chapo Guzman

    The Lie at the Heart of the Trial of El Chapo Guzman

    The lie at the heart of the trial of El Chapo Guzman is one familiar to every American who understands what happened to this country during Prohibition: Men and women are human. They can be bought, bribed, threatened or cajoled. It is the basis of organized crime.     Getting the ‘go-ahead’ from Marta Fernando…