Word: smugglers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bought under an assumed name, and collecting some gambling debts. Government prosecutors charge that Harrelson, 44, convicted once of murder for hire (he served five years before a parole in 1978), killed Wood for a $250,000 fee from a Las Vegas gambler and drug smuggler. To demonstrate his prowess as a professional cardsharp, Harrelson offered the court an impromptu exhibition. No thanks, said U.S. District Judge William Sessions...
After Drug Enforcement Administration agents nabbed a Chilean cocaine smuggler in Beverly Hills, Calif., they found in his bank safety deposit box only one item, a fraudulent U.S. passport. The phony passport and the forged visa have become standard equipment for drug traffickers, illegal aliens and others seeking a sure if shadowy passage abroad. A 1976 Justice Department report estimated that 80% of all hard drugs flowing into the U.S. were smuggled in with the aid of fraudulent passports. Today as many as 300,000 fugitives and terrorists use bogus identity papers, including U.S. passports and visas, to travel freely...
...drugs, or any other cargo wor thy of the smuggler's interest...
...suitcases of cash out of the U.S. to discreet banks in places like the Bahamas or the Cayman Islands. Other dealers simply pay a commission, $ 10,000 a week or so, to the dwindling number of Florida bankers willing to fudge or forget their transfer reports. Says one former smuggler: "I was paying up to 2% of my deposits to bank managers not to fill out the forms...
...graphic depiction of the aspects of poverty that you'd rather not think about. Pixote is a ten-year-old Brazilian who is sent to Reform School in an arbitrary police round-up. By the end of the film he is a murderer, a dope smuggler, a pimp, and only several months older than when we first meet him. We witness with him the brutality, corruption, drug abuse, homosexuality, squalor and general degradation that is his class's lot. Stay away from this film if you are the least bit squeamish; there is an unending stream of unsettling images that...