From: Daniel Hopsicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hi all, can't resist 'surfacing' for a moment to tell y'all that i've got a picture of some of that there 21-ton sylmar cocaine-- while it was still sitting on jorge ochoa's runway in colombia. check it out: http://www.madcowprod.com/Big2ndIssue!/atragedy.htm this picture is why--i think-- chip tatum stated in an interview about 18 months ago that he thought i might be about to have an accident. the bush connection is right on the money. in the following LA Times clip, where it reads" Juan Matta Ballesteros..." translate silently "George Herbert Walker Bush." brian, you'll be pleased to learn that the sylmar bust had an arizona connection. hint: some of it came north in seal's C123. (and yes, i know when that plane went down.) tangled web-city, man. FROM THE L.A. TIMES: The Sylmar bust -- 20 tons of cocaine and $ 10 million in cash -- is seen by law-enforcement officials as proof positive of the Mexican connection. The Colombian cartels, they say, have allied with Mexican smugglers operating along the Texas, Arizona and California borders. the Mexicans, who have long used their knowledge of the backcountry along the border to smuggle in marijuana and heroin, are now carrying cocaine as well. DEA agents call it "the Mexican trampoline." "The drugs are being given by the Colombian cartels to the Mexican organizations, who move it north," says Susan Bryant-Deason, an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles. "[The Mexicans] are then passing it back to Colombian distribution networks." Joint venture: The inventor of the Mexican trampoline, say DEA and FBI officials, is a Honduran billionaire named Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros. Matta has allegedly been involved in drug trafficking since the late 1960s. Federal sources say he organized a major West Coast cocaine -distribution ring, and that he has been a major player in both the Cali and Medellin cartels. In 1988 Matta was arrested by Honduran police and turned over to U.S. authorities; last month he was found guilty of drug trafficking and racketeering in a Los Angeles federal court. The prosecution charged that his joint venture with the Colombian cartels and Mexican smugglers had distributed $ 72 million worth of cocaine in Los Angeles, and that his narcotics empire was worth up to $ 2 billion. Matta's lawyer, who says he will appeal the case, says Matta is an innocent businessman convicted because of prejudicial publicity engineered by the government. -- Daniel Hopsicker The Drug Money Times http://www.MadCowProd.com "All the news that's ripped from print!" Scandal in contemporary U.S. life is an institutionalized sociological phenomenon. It is not due primarily to psychopathological variables, but is due to the institutionalization of elite wrongdoing which has occcurred since 1963." "Many of the scandals that have occurred in the U.S. since 1963 are fundamentally interrelated: that is, the same people and institutions have been involved." --Prof.David Simon, "Elite Deviance 6th edition --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- Choose from a wide selection of high-quality newsletters at ONElist. For details on ONElist's PROS&PUNDITS newsletters, click below. <a href=" http://clickme.onelist.com/ad/prospun2 ">Click Here</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
