Inverview with Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind

Re:Inverview with Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind by exit on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @06:03AM (#19377236)

can someone tl;dr this? what kind of crimes did he commit?

edit: the atavist article linked to elsewhere in these comments covers it:

"Paul Le Roux, the former head of a prescription drug, weapons, narcotics, and money laundering cartel, has been cooperating with the D.E.A. since 2012."

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Re:Inverview with Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind by andai on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @02:52PM (#19382146)

Also smuggling gold, literally having competing businesses burned to the ground, buying a ton (1000kg) of meth from North Korea, tried to smuggle it out in a submarine, having people killed for smaller and smaller things as he grew increasingly paranoid, then hiring another hitman to kill his main hitman, because he was stealing from him.

Under the podcast is a transcript you can skim.

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