Matthew Cox

Well, a club that holds 3,000 people, if you've got $300 per person in sales, that's $900,000 in legitimate sales.

And since you've got a tremendous contingency of Americans there, no one's going to be suspicious when they're dropping off all this cash in dollars.

And so it's just a money-making venture that in Mexico, they don't look at a business plan as, is this going to make us money?

They look at it as, can we push money through here?

As long as you've got, you could have a whole network of tanning salons.

It doesn't matter.

There may not be a single person that ever uses the beds.

They're running 24 hours a day.

Yes.

So any of these enclaves that attract American dollars serve as a perfect incubator for money laundering.

In fact, one of the guys that we were friends with in prison, I don't want to say his name.

But he was a good friend of Arturo Beltran Leyva.

And Beltran Leyva, Arturo, controlled the Acapulco region.

And what they did is they controlled the strip clubs in Acapulco.

Well, there were several of them that were very large clubs.

And so I think one of them was referenced in your story, The Unlikely Narco.

Was it the Palladium?

That's where Beltrale would party.

That's where Barbie would party.

Well, you take a club like that.