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Matthew Cox

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Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

Those aren't conservatives wearing MAGA hats.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

Those are guys from Honduras or Nicaragua or El Salvador.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

Well, they need to get their money back.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

home to their families in the form of remittances.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

So what they use is called black market money exchanges.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

Well, the Chinese have been doing this for 1,500 years.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

This is part of their culture.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

And so the triad, the 14K, tapped into this pre-existing Shifen network to get proceeds from Mexico to China to pay for the precursors.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

Now, they're charging another 6%, but hey, you're making a fortune on the synthetics.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

It's just a modest fee to pay.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

But this was set the predicate.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

This is when the Chinese first started moving money for the Mexicans.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

Now, do you want to discuss examples of...

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

Yes, that's very prevalent, like I said, throughout ethnic communities in the United States.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

So if you're someone who's from the Dominican Republic, you move to New York, it's a large Dominican population.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

You know, one of the locals is going to take you around, introduce you to all the stores and all the bodega owners.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

Well, once they, you know, once they get comfortable with you and they know you got to, you know, your grandmother lives in Santiago and your fiance lives in Santo Domingo.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

And two or three months later, say, hey, I got to give him some money to my mom.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

How do I do that?

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Cartel Money Tricks Exposed by Former Insider

Every one of these bodegas handles it.