Entire Florida police department busted for laundering millions for international drug cartels
Source: Raw Story
Entire Florida police department busted for laundering millions for international drug cartels
Justin Gardner, Free Thought Project
02 Jan 2016 at 00:44 ET
Screenshot from "License to Launder" (Miami Herald)
The village of Bal Harbour, population 2,513, may have a tiny footprint on the northern tip of Miami Beach, but its police department had grand aspirations of going after international drug traffickers, and making a few million dollars while they were at it.
The Bal Harbour PD and the Glades County Sheriff’s Office set up a giant money laundering scheme with the purported goal of busting drug cartels and stemming the surge of drug dealing going on in the area. But it all fell apart when federal investigators and the Miami-Herald found strange things going on.
The two-year operation, which took in more than $55 million from criminal groups, resulted in zero arrests but netted $2.4 million for the police posing as money launderers. Members of the 12-person task force traveled far and wide to carry out their deals, from Los Angeles to New York to Puerto Rico.
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“They were like bank robbers with badges,” said Dennis Fitzgerald, an attorney and former Drug Enforcement Administration agent who taught undercover tactics for the U.S. State Department. “It had no law enforcement objective. The objective was to make money.”
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Video at link.
The War on Drugs is the real scheme that should be investigated.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/entire-florida-police-department-busted-for-laundering-millions-for-international-drug-cartels/
A bit long but worth the time.
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a small town police dept does not have national jurisdiction and sooner or later someone would ask where the money came from.
They were bold. 
