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They don’t seem to be the brightest criminals:

Multiple undercover agents, posing as drug traffickers looking to expand their operations, also met Ramos in Las Vegas in February 2017, the complaint continues.

“We made it—we made it specifically for this [drug trafficking] too,” Ramos told undercover agents, according to a transcript included in the complaint.

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I don't think they actually said the part in the brackets. It's an editorial insertion, and probably from the person who wrote this article rather than from the transcript being quoted.

“We made it—we made it specifically for this shit too,”

probably said something like that

"I'm doing this [murdering kittens], just to make a little extra cash until I graduate."

They're just "adding context" aka begging the question; they're not censoring the word "shit."

The square brackets are usually just used to give context from previous sentences / paragraphs that would not be obvious otherwise. So e.g. "He [James] paid him [John].". Where both names were in a previous paragraph. If we read the previous paragraph in the article that makes sense, because it was literally clarifying questions about the efficacy of using it for drug trafficking.

So basically "our product is specifically designed for your application, please give us your money"?

Yeah, because people never stretch the truth when trying to make a sale

Stretching the truth should have consequences too.

It's in the original complaint filed by federal prosecutors. See page 16:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4406486/Vincent-R...

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