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...Colonel Luis del Cid got his 70-year sentence reduced to a 10-year maximum. Another defendant who is presumably trying to cut a deal is Ricardo Bilonick, a Tulane-educated lawyer who was whisked back from Panama last week to face charges of running cocaine on his Panamanian cargo airline, Inair...
...Cali imagination shines when it comes to the art of smuggling. Medellin brazenly shipped cocaine across borders in fast boats or light planes with extra fuel bladders. Calenos prefer the slow but safe merchant marine. The cartel has devised endless ways to hide contraband in commercial cargo and launder it through third countries. U.S. Customs can check perhaps 3% of the 9 million shipping containers that enter U.S. ports annually, making the odds very favorable for Cali...
...officials. The coffee was marked for delivery to Jordan or Syria but was routed through Miami or New Orleans, where it was secretly off-loaded. Former U.S. shipping agents who testified before the Florida grand jury told TIME they accepted $4.5 million in bribes from Bilbeisi for providing phony cargo manifests to fool U.S. customs officials. The shipping agents say they were able to dodge U.S. taxes because B.C.C.I. created false loans and transfers, then deposited the bribes in secret accounts in London...
...train, carrying 2,400 tons of contaminated dirt, left Michigan nearly a month ago. Eight states later, it's still looking for a landfill. Like the New York garbage barge that sailed the seas for five months in 1987 before it finally disposed of its malodorous cargo back where it started and the "poo-poo choo-choo" filled with Baltimore sewage whose 1989 odyssey ended up back in Baltimore, the "dirt train" is unwanted...
...contaminated cargo originated in 1989 when a train carrying acrylic acid and other chemicals derailed in Freeland, Mich. CSX Transportation of Jacksonville, Fla., cleaned up the mess and sent it to be landfilled. But members of Greenpeace and other environmental groups bird-dogged the train, and some protesters even chained themselves to it. Two weeks ago, South Carolina fined CSX $21,975 because the train was leaking what appeared to be a toxic liquid. Meanwhile the controversy has scared off four landfill operators so far. Last week the train rolled out of Sumter, S.C., like a rail-bound Flying Dutchman...