Mexico's Drug Cartels Have An Ingeniously Simple Method Of Laundering Money

Drug kingpins turn to trade-based money-laundering DRUG traffickers, like everyone else, only want money because they want what money can buy. But turning dirty cash from drug sales into clean, usable currency has become harder for Mexican drug gangs as a result of tighter banking regulations at home and in the United States, their main market. The criminals are responding by piggy-backing on cross-border trade to launder their gains. On September 10th roughly 1,000 law-enforcement officials rai...