LOS ANGELES – GATEWAY FOR THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/04/los-angeles-narcomex-norte-and-la-raza.html
really want amnesty and more of the Democrat Party’s OPEN BORDERS?
L.A. fashion district firms raided in
cartel money laundering probe
75 L.A. raids, $90
million seized, nine arrested in drug cartel money-laundering probe
$35 million in boxes, $10 million in bags:
Just half the haul in raids of 75 L.A. spots in cartel money probe
Sinaloa
cartel bosses had a problem. They were holding a hostage and needed to get the
$140,000 ransom his family agreed to pay from the United States to Mexico in
the form of pesos.
Worried
a wire transfer would alert authorities, the drug traffickers turned to an
unlikely business: Q.T. Fashion, a wholesaler of maternity clothing in downtown
Los Angeles.
The
hostage's family was directed to give the ransom money to the business, which
used it to pay for clothing shipments to a Sinaloa importer, federal officials
said. The importer then paid for the goods in pesos — to the cartel.
Federal
agents raided Q.T Fashion and numerous other businesses in the downtown fashion
district Wednesday, cracking down on a scheme that cartels are increasingly
relying on to get their profits — from drug sales, kidnappings and other
illegal activities — back to Mexico, authorities said.
Nine
people were arrested in raids targeting 75 locations, and $90 million was
seized — $70 million in cash. In one condo, agents found $35 million stuffed in
banker boxes. At a mansion in Bel-Air, they discovered $10 million in duffel
bags.
Federal
officials said they believe that the drug organizations have used businesses
throughout Los Angeles to convert their vast earnings into pesos, turning the
city into a hub for "trade-based money laundering."
Such
schemes and others were used widely during the Colombian cocaine trade in
Florida in the 1980s. Now federal agents view Los Angeles as the new Miami.
"Los
Angeles has become the epicenter of narco-dollar money laundering with couriers
regularly bringing duffel bags and suitcases full of cash to many
businesses," said Robert E. Dugdale, the assistant U.S. attorney in charge
of federal criminal prosecutions in Los Angeles.
Agents
with Immigration and Customs Enforcement infiltrated peso brokerages operating
in Los Angeles, authorities said Wednesday. They said they focused on the
fashion district because it was a concentrated area where taking drug money had
become routine. The undercover officers went to storefronts with bundles of
cash, sometimes shrink-wrapped in grocery bags, one time splattered with what
looked like blood, authorities said, noting the agents even mentioned that the
money came from drug trafficking.
No
one blinked at taking it, they said.
The
FBI came became involved when the kidnapping victim's family notified them of
what was going on. The IRS examined the methods that businesses used to flout
its reporting requirements for large cash transactions.
The
practice of laundering drug profits through legitimate trade has dramatically
increased since Mexico restricted the use of American dollars in 2010 by
limiting deposits of U.S. currency at banks, brokerages and exchange houses.
Cartels
can no longer have bulk shipments of cash sent home to be spent and deposited
as they pleased.
Black
market peso brokers filled the gap. The brokers contact legitimate Mexican
importers who want to buy goods in Los Angeles. If an importer wants to buy
$30,000 worth of shirts the broker directs a drug contact in the United States
to pay the bill to a shirt wholesaler in dollars. The importer in Mexico then
pays the broker, in pesos, who takes a cut and pays the rest to a cartel.
The
State Department estimates drug trafficking organizations send between $19
billion and $29 billion to Mexico annually from the United States.
The
flow of cheap goods from the Pacific Rim through the county's two ports, as
well as Los Angeles' proximity to the border, makes the area a natural center
for the black market peso exchange.
Last
year, banks filed 1,510 "suspicious activity reports" about
trade-based money laundering. More than half of those came from California,
according the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Of
all suspicious activity reports filed nationwide — targeting all types of money
laundering and fraud — nearly 11% came from Los Angeles County alone.
The
fashion district has become more of a transit point for goods than a
manufacturing center.
Ilse
Metchek, president of the California Fashion Assn., said retail exports to Mexico
have grown over the years in part due to Mexico's protectionist stance on
apparel and shoes coming from China.
"The
importers bring it into the U.S. from China, and then ship to Mexico,"
Metchek said.
Kent
Smith, executive director of the LA Fashion District, said there are 4,000
businesses in the area that generate billions of dollars a year in economic
activity.
Los Angeles has
become the epicenter of narco-dollar money laundering with couriers regularly
bringing duffel bags and suitcases full of cash to many businesses.- Robert E.
Dugdale, assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles
"It's
unfair to paint the rest of the legitimate businesses ... with what a small
number of businesses may be doing in terms of illegal activity," he said.
As
law enforcement officers swarmed the fashion district early Wednesday, a line
of business owners and workers gathered across the street from C'est Toi, a
womenswear outlet on Wall Street. Officers moved in and out of the store.
"I've
known that things like this [money laundering] happened in the fashion
district, more or less, but never knew who," said the owner of a women's
denim store in Mandarin.
His
employee, saleswoman Julie Rodriguez, said she was concerned customers might
shy away from the area. "I think it might be bad for my business,"
she said.
Despite
the number of locations raided Wednesday, only four local businesses were named
in indictments.
ICE
agents targeted the owners of Yili Underwear and Gayima Underwear for allegedly
taking $82,000 in drug proceeds, then depositing the money in many small
amounts to avoid IRS rules that require detailed reports of any cash
transaction of $10,000 or more.
In
the world of ill-gotten gains, the latter offense — avoiding 10K deposits — is
a well-known trick of the trade, known as "structuring transactions"
or "smurfing."
The
underwear wholesalers, Xilin Chen, 55, and his son Chuang Feng Chen, 24, both
of Temple City, were arrested Wednesday and charged with nine felony counts
related to money laundering and structuring, and lying on naturalization forms.
Xilin's daughter, Alixia Chen, is at large in China, federal authorities said.
The
owners of Pacific Eurotex Corp. were accused of hiding $2.6 million in drug
money over two years by dividing it into 363 separate deposits, all under the
$10,000 reporting requirement. Hersel Neman, 55, of Westwood; his brother Morad
Neman, 54, of Westwood; Mehran Khalili, 45, of Beverly Hills; and Alma
Villalobos, 54, of Arleta, were arrested and charged with 10 felony counts
related to money laundering and structuring.
The
most harrowing allegations came in the Q.T. Fashion case investigated by the FBI.
A drug distributor for the Sinaloa cartel was taken hostage in October 2012
after his 100-kilogram shipment of cocaine was seized by U.S. authorities. Held
at a ranch in Culiacán, Sinaloa, he was beaten, shot, waterboarded and electro-
The
cartel told his family in California two months later to deliver $140,000 to
Q.T. Fashion, which imported goods from China into Mexico. Q.T. then
distributed much of the money to 17 other businesses, settling debts owed by a
clothing import company in Culiacán named Maria Ferre, which would pay the
ransom in pesos.
The
victim was released the day Q.T. Fashion received the money, according to the
indictment.
The
owner and manager of Q.T. Fashion — Jong Hack Park, 56, of La Cañada
Flintridge, and Sang Jun Park, 36, of La Crescenta — were arrested on charges
related to money laundering and smuggling goods. Jose Isabel Gomez Arreola, 49,
of downtown Los Angeles, who worked for Maria Ferre, was arrested on suspicion
of distributing the money and changing labels on clothes to indicate they were
made in America to avoid Mexican tariffs. Three other defendants — the owner of
Maria Ferre, its accountant and an employee — are at large in Mexico, federal
authorities said.
Seven
defendants entered not guilty pleas Wednesday. Two others will be arraigned at
a later time.
Dugdale,
of the U.S. attorney's office, said Wednesday's crackdown was just the
beginning of a widespread campaign to go after cartel money, "which is
their lifeblood."
LOS
ANGELES TOP 200 LA RAZA CRIMINALS… they’re all registered dems and getting
anchor baby breeders’ welfare!
206 Most wanted criminals in Los Angeles. Out of 206
criminals--183 are hispanic---171 of those are wanted for Murder.
Why do Americans still protect the illegals??
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/09/los-angeles-top-200-most-wanted.html
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/09/los-angeles-top-200-most-wanted.html
WHAT AMNESTY? Here’s
what Mexicans have done in Los Angeles, Mexico’s second largest dumpster city,
now facing bankruptcy.
LA RAZA IS THE MOST VIOLENT CULTURE
IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. DAILY MEXICANS MURDER 12 AMERICANS AND MOLEST 8
CHILDREN!
CHARGED WITH MURDERING GILDARDO MORALES, Alexander Hernandez is
also charged with two counts of attempted murder for allegedly firing upon a
husband and wife who were in their vehicle in West Hollywood Friday, along with
three counts of animal cruelty for allegedly shooting three dogs at a house in
Pacoima, killing two and injuring the third, on Saturday.
OBAMA’S VOW TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY TO BUILD
THE DEMS’ LA RAZA PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS and keep wages DEPRESSED.
(CNSNews.com) -- In 2011, nearly
three years before the current wave of more than 227,000 illegal aliens flooded
the U.S.-Mexico border, the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) warned the
federal government that the U.S. border “can easily be breached on foot” by
criminal aliens and Mexican drug cartels, who smuggle billions of dollars worth
of illicit drugs into the United States each year.
EVEN MORE HERE…
AND THEN AT YOUR FRONT DOOR NEXT!
LOSANGELES: MEXICO'S LARGEST CITY
…..here’s what LA RAZA does when they invade,
occupy and loot:
LOS ANGELES: Mexico’s second largest city, gateway
for the Mexican drug cartels and LA RAZA capital for anchor baby welfare to ONE
BILLION DOLLARS a year!
Will Mexico bankrupt California before it
surrenders its borders?
Mexico declares
Los Angeles officially under LA RAZA SUPREMACY occupation.
MARIA CHATA LEON
LA RAZA GANG
BITCH MARIA “CHATA” LEON… A MEX MOMMA OPERATING HER OWN MASSIVE DRUG CARTEL IN LA
RAZA-OCCUPIED MEXIFORNIA
“In Mexico, a recent Zogby poll declared that
the vast majority of Mexican citizens hate Americans. [22.2] Mexico is a
country saturated with racism, yet in denial, having never endured the social
development of a Civil Rights movement like in the US--Blacks are harshly
treated while foreign Whites are often seen as the enemy. [22.3] In fact,
racism as workplace discrimination can be seen across the US anywhere the
illegal alien Latino works--the vast majority of the workforce is usually
strictly Latino, excluding Blacks, Whites, Asians, and others.”
OBAMA’S CATCH and RELEASE and MURDER program in operation:
EVERY DAY THERE ARE 12 AMERICANS
MURDERED BY ILLEGALS and 8 CHILDREN MOLESTED.
The AP identified the illegal alien as a
“suburban New Orleans man” who faces a second-degree murder charge after his
girlfriend was found bludgeoned to death in a bathtub in Louisiana. The man was
arrested in a Katy, Texas trailer park with three children. It is unclear if
they are his or if they are the same children he used to get U.S. authorities
to release him with a Notice to Appear.
DRUG
CARTELS FIND CALIFORNIA A GREAT PLACE TO LOOT!
Street
gang that controls ALL of Orange County drug trade taken down: SWAT teams swoop
on 120 members of the 'Mexican Mafia' a total of 129 people have been
indicted by county and federal grand juries alleging crimes including
murder, drug trafficking and extortion
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-mexican-crime-tidal-wave-mexican.html
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-mexican-crime-tidal-wave-mexican.html
CNSNews.com) -- In 2011, nearly
three years before the current wave of more than 227,000 illegal aliens flooded
the U.S.-Mexico border, the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) warned the
federal government that the U.S. border “can easily be breached on foot” by
criminal aliens and Mexican drug cartels, who smuggle billions of dollars worth
of illicit drugs into the United States each year.
EVEN MORE HERE…
AND THEN AT YOUR FRONT DOOR NEXT!
THE
MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS NOW OPERATE OUT OF 2,500 U.S. CITIES AND HAUL BACK TENS OF
BILLIONS IN CASH WHERE THEY BUY MEX POLITICIANS TO DO THEIR BIDDING.
THERE
IS NO ONE THAT WORKS HARDER FOR THE CARTELS DRIVE FOR OPEN BORDERS THAN BARACK
OBAMA.
In Mexico City, she announced that the U.S. appetite for illegal
drugs and the easy acquisition of guns from the United States by Mexicans are
the root causes of the Mexican crime wave. “Blame America” has become the
global agenda of the Democratic Party.
EVEN MORE HERE… AND THEN AT YOUR FRONT
DOOR NEXT!
“While the Obama Administration
downplays violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities in Texas reveal
that Mexican have transformed parts of the state into a war zone where
shootings, beheadings, kidnappings and murders are common.
JEFF SESSIONS ON OBAMA’S IMPERIAL
AMNESTY TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S
LOOTING AND GET MORE ILLEGALS
VOTING DEM:
Sen.
Jeff Sessions (R-AL) well expressed the outrage felt by many Americans, when he
stated, “The only thing that is more shocking than Senate Democrats’
support for the president’s planned executive amnesty is the cravenness of
asking him to proceed beginning the day after the midterms. Once again,
powerful politicians are colluding with powerful interest groups to deny you,
the American citizen, the protection of your laws and your voice in government.
They don’t care what you want, or what you think—they scorn and mock our good
and decent citizens for wishing their laws to be enforced. Never in recent
memory has the divide between the everyday citizen, and the political elite,
been as wide as it is now.”
Isis Muslim beheadings OR LA RAZA Mexican
beheadings in
and on our open borders. Which one
is ALREADY on our doorsteps?
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