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The Shipment and the Missing Name
Investigators can follow fentanyl from a chemical supplier to a payment and a tested shipment.…
What Happened to the Other Dollars?
A $200 million monthly estimate became one of the most durable numbers in accounts of…
After Assad, the Pills Kept Moving
The factories opened to reporters. The border erupted. Then the seizures kept coming—revealing how much…
The New Competitors: Chinese Money Networks and the Lebanese Brokers
In January 2021, an American operative named Edgar Joel Martinez-Reyes slipped across the southern border into Mexico with a singular…
The Service Economy: Why a Cartel Would Hire a Lebanese Broker
One to five days: that was the swift settlement timetable American prosecutors documented when they unveiled the federal indictment of…
What Europe’s Hezbollah Cases Actually Decided
On a cold late-November afternoon in 2018, inside the storied corridors of the Palais de Justice in Paris, presiding judge…
Prison Gangs and Middlemen: Following the PCC–Hezbollah Trail
When Brazilian police pulled over a nondescript passenger car on a sun-baked highway in February 2008, the panic inside the…