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  • HSBC Narco-Bank: Too big to fail, too big to go to jail

    The big news in the US Senate’s Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigation’s 340-page report released last week on drug money-laundering by London’s HSBC Bank, the world’s 4th largest, is the answer to the question: Is there a bigger Drug Lord in the world than Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel Honcho Shorty (El Chapo) Guzman? Perhaps surprisingly, the answer…

  • Narco-Banker: The Allen Stanford Story

    With his recent conviction on 13 counts of money laundering—ensuring that a man who once lived in a $57 million mansion with a moat will be doing his entertaining behind bars for a very long time—the Allen Stanford scandal would seem to be all but over.   But Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scandal is ending before…