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And they've had Republican...
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politicians, prosecutors, officials who have been investigated or indicted for taking bribes from some of those cases.
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#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?
So Oklahoma has had a tremendous, tremendous problem with this.
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And we actually found a few ties to Oklahoma.
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We found
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You know, there's some shared addresses or people we believe came from Oklahoma, but I was in Eastport, Maine, at a old sardine cannery.
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And Eastport's like the furthest east city in Maine.
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You can see Campobello Island, which is where FDR used to have his summer White House.
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It's technically Canada.
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There's this beautiful building, sardine cannery, that a guy named Jimmy Wong had purchased and turned into.
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#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?
Supposedly, he was going to export lobsters to China.
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#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?
And all the stuff in the ocean that Americans don't eat, but the Chinese do, he was going to harvest it, freeze it, sell it, make a bunch of money.
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#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?
And everyone believed him.
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#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?
But it ended up just being a human trafficking operation and a marijuana growing operation.
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And we...
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#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?
were in that facility after it had been cleaned out by the guy who owned it.
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#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?
And we noticed that tacked up to block out the light from coming in and ruining the marijuana plants, and also to keep prying eyes out, there was like an Oklahoma State University tablecloth had been tacked up on the wall.
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#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?
It's like, that's not an accident.
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#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?
These guys aren't fans of Oklahoma State University football.
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#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?
Somehow, you know, vehicles from Oklahoma came to Eastport, Maine, as part of the same criminal organization that was trafficking in people and exploited laborers and growing huge amounts of marijuana to sell across the United States by virtue of the hemp loophole.