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Professionals already have banks for that. 90 million dollars? These are small fishes. They only helped the bigger ones go get rid of the competition and the effect on drug trafficking is near zero.

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From another perspective, consider it probably did not cost $90 million to execute this plan. So overall, this is a net profit, and most likely cost effective.

It was a top secret plan spanning multiple countries likely run by corrupt officials, I think it probably cost more than 90 million!

Was the plan to make profit or to reduce drug trafficking? Maybe they should reevaluate their goals.

The agency that seizes the money gets to keep it.

This person had his motel all paid off. So the Government decided to size it because they could sell it. He fought them off, barely:

https://www.wbur.org/news/2012/11/14/tewksbury-motel-owner-f...

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