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Sheldon Whitehouse: “The financial apparatus [supporting the cartels] has become…”

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John Cornyn Leads Senate International Narcotics Control Caucus Hearing On Mexican Drug Cartels

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… in Africa, to human trafficking and international criminal organizations, to terror groups, to anybody who had money that they needed to hide and transfer around illicitly. And at that point, The financial apparatus [supporting the cartels] has become its own domain with its own structure and dark economy. its own. It's sort of like its own separate dark economy. And it serves all of these various illicit enterprises. (1:02:17)

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Asserts that the financial operations supporting cartels have evolved into a separate, structured dark economy.

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