92 - Narco-Economics: Inside the Mexican Drug Trade
The Red Line
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The Disincentives to Money Laundering
In the United States there are not a lot of money laundering cases made even when they are connected to Mexican criminal organization. The layers and layers of means by which you can launder the proceeds also has made it significantly more difficult to make these cases. So imagine if they start going after things such as real estate the real estate market in New York or the realestate market in London all of those huge real estate markets there's no one really addressing that question. It's not like there's a lot of incentive for people to be poking around in those spaces and knocking down people who are perhaps from a politician's perspective.
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