Word: cartel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...named a Mexican drug lord to its "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list, the first time an international drug trafficker ever made the roster. Juan Garcia-Abrego, whose Gulf Cartel has shipped tons of Colombian cocaine to the U.S., is under investigation for bribing a former Mexican deputy attorney general to protect his organization. That official, Mario Ruiz Massieu, is now the center of a massive corruption scandal that has shakenMexicoto the core. Ruiz Massieu's brother, a top political official, was murdered in September, allegedly in a plot masterminded by the brother of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Ruiz...
...Microsoft settlement, Bingaman must be wondering whether she's been promising more than she can deliver. The wife of Senator Jeff Bingaman, a three-term Democrat from New Mexico, Bingaman was once a plaintiff's lawyer who could claim a record-making $1 billion judgment against a foreign uranium cartel. By the end of last year, she had initiated more than 33 civil antitrust cases, compared with an average of 10 a year for her Republican predecessors. But the legal theory of antitrust has been changing. In federal courts, where Republican-appointed judges predominate, pursuing large companies simply because they...
When artist Yael Bedarshi discovered this promotional film in Berlin a few years ago, the sponsor's name was instantly and ominously familiar. Bayer, a developer of cockroach control chemicals, was a subsidiary of IG Farben during World War II. IG Farben was the chemical cartel responsible for the manufacturing of Zyklon B gas, a pesticide used to exterminate victims of he Nazi regime...
...spies prevented some 120 terrorists from launching attacks, say agency officials. Signal intercepts, along with CIA informants in China, have alerted U.S. officials to chemical weapons-related shipments the Beijing government has tried to make to Iran. The agency has also succeeded in placing agents in the Cali drug cartel...
...nine tons of cocaine as a result of an international, two-year long probe of worldwide money laundering. The probe -- called "Operation Dinero" and conducted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and officials from Italy, Spain and Britain -- also found links between the Italian Mafia and the Cali cartel in Columbia. Along the way, agents seized paintings by Rubens, Picasso and Reynolds from drug smugglers. The DEA used a private bank in the British West Indies to nab the cartel members. Seven Colombian drug trafficking and laundering organizations opened accounts at the bank, providing agents called "an unprecedented window" into...