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A comment on The Mastermind, Episode 7: The Next Big Deal.

Re:The Mastermind, Episode 7: The Next Big Deal by at-fates-hands on Thursday April 28, 2016 @04:15PM (#11591594)
This whole thing just seems off to me. LeRoux was the guy they wanted, he was the boss, the mastermind, the guy who ordered all the murders, set up the operations. It makes no sense why the Gov. would give him a deal to get all the guys under him, when they already had the Kingpin in their custody! Normally cops work the lower level guys to get to the Kingpin. In this case they took a top down approach, which seems off to me.

Also, the sting operation on Hunter's crew is a classic example of entrapment. Lured by big money, and egged on by LeRoux, it looks like Hunter's crew was lead into this, and they went along with whatever LeRoux told them to do. It would be relatively easy to say these guys would not have ever done any of what their accused of without LeRoux's involvement.

Again, this seems completely backwards to me.

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Re:The Mastermind, Episode 7: The Next Big Deal by Trundle on Friday April 29, 2016 @01:26AM (#11593911)
They turned a high volume illicit prescription drug seller case in to multiple arrests of hitmen. We also don't know what, if any, deal he has been offered. That seems like it was probably a great score for the DOJ.

Keep in mind, a lot of the crimes we've read about in this story are himself, a non-US citizen not in the US, doing things with/to non-US citizens not in the US. I imagine the prosecutors are fare less concerned about a South African living in The Philippines having a Filipino killed than they are with the fact that the killers were brought in from the US.

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Re:The Mastermind, Episode 7: The Next Big Deal by shavingspiders on Thursday April 28, 2016 @06:44PM (#11592419)
Why just take the head of the fish? Take the rest of the body, and by association it'll have the largest flow on effect. With LeRoux out of the scene, it's not like everyone else will just suddenly stop.
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Re:The Mastermind, Episode 7: The Next Big Deal by aab0 on Thursday April 28, 2016 @07:08PM (#11592542)
It's hard to know what the government is really thinking. Consider Silk Road 2: whatever happened to the guy running it, Blake Benthall? He vanished into government custody in late 2014 and nothing since.
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