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  • Not All Chinese Fortunes Come In Cookies

    Joseph Contreras | Jul 24, 2007 06:01 PM
    It had all the ingredients of an edge-of-your-seat sequel to Steven Soderbergh's acclaimed 2000 film Traffic: a mindboggling stash of $207 million in cold hard cash found in a police raid on a mansion in one of Mexico City's most elegant neighborhoods, a shady Chinese businessman with a taste for Las Vegas casinos and Lamborghinis who had ambitious plans to produce container-loads of methamphetamine on an industrial scale, allegations of a campaign slush fund that reached into the government cabinet of a country that is synonymous with corruption the world over. More
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