Matthew Cox

And so this is what the Chinese started doing to facilitate the importation of precursors.

Well, see, the reason why the government gets really concerned about this is because the mechanisms that are in place to detect the movement of money...

are all obviated.

There's no actual transaction.

So people were able to move money without triggering any of the tripwires.

There was a couple of instances where 14K guys down in Orange County had to move money to facilitate what was a counterfeit compact disc scheme.

That's hilarious.

Yeah, that was in 14K.

That was a different group.

And so one of the individuals in my group that I was associated with was involved with laundering drug proceeds through the music industry.

And this was the inception of the West Coast genre of hip-hop.

And back in the early 1990s, there were artists that had achieved commercial success.

Right.

You know, N.W.A.

came out with Straight Outta Compton in 88.

You know, Ice Cube later on came out with some albums, DJ Quick.

Well, these guys had tremendous commercial success, but they never had essentially commercial airplay.

You never heard N.W.A.

's Fuck the Police on American Top 40 radio.

Right.