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Busted: Chinese Trump Fan Laundered Mexico Drug Cash, Feds Say

One of the defendants, Tao Liu, AKA Anthony Liu, an alleged Hong Kong-based launderer and influence-buyer, managed a VIP pass to a Trump rally in West Virginia in 2018

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Elaine Shannon
Oct 19, 2020
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Mexico’s underworld has become the Everything Store for the Dark Side. Its cartels make or broker all the stuff Amazon doesn’t sell—cocaine, heroin, uppers, downers, mind-benders, sex, death, and much more. 

For Mexican traffickers, the urgent priority is to get their bloody billions spot-clean and into the international banking system. There are only so…

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