Anonymous ID: 89396d May 15, 2025, 8:08 p.m. No.23039944   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Ah ok AI had a hard time learning hands because there aren't as many photos of hands as there are faces and body shapes. Most of the time you don't got good angles on hands.

Anonymous ID: 89396d May 15, 2025, 8:14 p.m. No.23039967   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0186

China, Cartels, And Cash: How Chinese Operatives Are Laundering Mexican Drug Money In Broad Daylight

 

Mexican drug cartels are partnering with Chinese money laundering networks to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars in drug proceeds to Chinese nationals in the United States, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.

 

The Sinaloa Cartel — formerly headed by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán — is allegedly working with Chinese groups based in the U.S. to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars in cartel cash through American banks and ultimately into the hands of Chinese nationals living in the U.S., the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

 

The scheme often begins in Mexico, where cartels make billions of dollars selling cheap drugs into the United States.

 

Chinese nationals in the U.S. travel to Mexico to pick up large amounts of cash directly from the cartels. They then deposit the cash into a network of accounts held at major American banks before selling it to wealthy Chinese clients who pay using Chinese yuan, according to the Journal. The money laundering groups then purchase low-cost goods from China, which are shipped to Mexico, and sold under the cover of legitimate trade. The proceeds — in pesos — are returned to the cartels.

 

Chinese laundering groups in the U.S. have grown in prominence in recent years, partly due to financial restrictions imposed by the Chinese government, added the Journal’s report. Beijing prohibits individuals from moving more than $50,000 out of the country in foreign currency, and many wealthy Chinese nationals also face sanctions, creating strong incentives to bypass legal channels. To purchase homes in America or pay for their child’s tuition at an American university, wealthy Chinese buyers have to find cash somewhere else.

 

Chinese operatives in the U.S. frequently open dozens of bank accounts using forged passports and communicate with their Mexican partners using encrypted Chinese messaging platforms, the Journal further noted. They typically take a 1–2% cut of each transaction.

 

Some of those involved reportedly entered the U.S. from China on student visas. In one case highlighted by the Journal, a Range Rover was observed collecting bags of cash from multiple houses in Los Angeles linked to a Chinese launderer who was seen crossing the U.S.-Mexico border with a known Sinaloa associate. The vehicle dropped the money off with a Chinese high school student living in a different part of the city, who admitted to receiving more than $60,000 in cash when questioned by law enforcement. Drug-sniffing dogs detected narcotics residue on the bills, according to the Journal.

 

On June 18, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of Los Angeles-based Sinaloa Cartel associates alongside Chinese bankers in a plot to launder drug money which was to be sent back to Mexico. The arrests of the co-conspirators by respective Mexican and Chinese authorities followed the DOJ’s lengthy investigation into the plot, which they had called “Operation Fortune Runner.”

 

“The Sinaloa Cartel is largely responsible for the massive influx of fentanyl into the United States over the past approximately eight years, and for the accompanying violence and deaths that have afflicted communities on both sides of the border,” the DOJ wrote in a press release at the time. “The cartel’s activities generate enormous sums of U.S. currency in the United States that belong to the cartel in Mexico. Profits from the drug trade must be repatriated to Mexico for use by the cartel.”

 

In May 2023, a senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told the Senate that Mexican drug cartels were using Chinese chemicals and equipment to manufacture fentanyl-laced pills that would then be smuggled into the United States.

 

“As Mexican cartels have taken over fentanyl production and operate on an industrial scale, they are procuring precursor chemicals from China and synthesizing these chemicals in Mexico to produce fentanyl,” Matthew Millhollin, the assistant director of DHS’ Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), said in his testimony to the Senate at the time.

 

“Increasingly, Chinese actors and markets are thickly intertwined in Mexico’s illegal economies, such as drug and wildlife trafficking and money laundering,” Brookings Institution senior fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown wrote in a 2022 op-ed originally published by Mexico Today. “China is the predominant source of precursor chemicals for Mexican criminal groups – principally the Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CNJG) – which then cook fentanyl and methamphetamine from them and smuggle them to the United States and elsewhere.”

 

https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/05/15/chinese-nationals-money-laundering-mexican-cartels/

Anonymous ID: 89396d May 15, 2025, 8:15 p.m. No.23039979   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9994 >>0001 >>0030 >>0061 >>0186

Jeanine Pirro sworn in as interim US attorney

 

Former judge Jeanine Pirro was sworn in as interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

 

Pirro, 73, will now lead a team of attorneys in defending President Donald Trump's administration in court as well as prosecuting local crimes in the nation's capital.

 

"Congratulations ⁦Judge Jeanine⁩ who will soon make DC Great Again!" Sergi Gor, the director White House Office of Presidential Personnel, wrote on social media.

 

President Donald Trump announced he was appointing Pirro to the role last week.

 

"I am pleased to announce that Judge Jeanine Pirro will be appointed interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia," Trump wrote on social media.

 

"Jeanine is incredibly well qualified for this position, and is considered one of the Top District Attorneys in the History of the State of New York. She is in a class by herself. Congratulations Jeanine!"

 

Pirro has left Fox News Channel and a rotation of Fox News personalities will fill her seat on "The Five" until a new co-host is named.

 

"Jeanine Pirro has been a wonderful addition to The Five over the last three years and a longtime beloved host across FOX News Media who contributed greatly to our success throughout her 14-year tenure. We wish her all the best in her new role in Washington," a spokesperson for FOX News Media said in a statement.

 

Pirro served as the assistant district attorney and district attorney in New York's Westchester County and became the first woman to serve as a judge in Westchester County Court.

 

She joined Fox News Channel in 2006 and hosted "Justice with Judge Jeanine" for 11 years before joining "The Five," which has emerged as the most-watched show on cable news.

 

Trump also announced on Truth Social that Ed Martin, who was the previous interim U.S. attorney in D.C., will be moving to the Department of Justice as its "Director of the Weaponization Working Group, Associate Deputy Attorney General, and Pardon Attorney."

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jeanine-pirro-sworn-interim-us-attorney

Anonymous ID: 89396d May 15, 2025, 8:16 p.m. No.23039986   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0011 >>0186

Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal

🇺🇸🇦🇪 THE BURJ KHALIFA LIT UP WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG FOR TRUMP

 

Dubai’s Burj Khalifa — the tallest building on Earth — is now glowing red, white, and blue, flashing a massive welcome message to Trump across its face.

 

A stunning end to Trump’s Middle East tour.

 

Deals signed. Billions pledged.

 

And now? Respect displayed 2,700 feet high.

 

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1923111239187824789

Anonymous ID: 89396d May 15, 2025, 8:18 p.m. No.23040005   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0010 >>0062 >>0130 >>0186

Tiffany Trump gives birth to baby boy; 11th grandchild for the President

 

-Tiffany, 31, has welcomed her first child with husband Michael Boulos

-She shared the exciting news via Instagram with a heartwarming snapshot

-The latest addition to the Trump family is now Donald's 11th grandchild

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14687997/donald-trump-grandfather-daughter-tiffany-birth-baby-boy.html

Anonymous ID: 89396d May 15, 2025, 8:23 p.m. No.23040025   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0087 >>0186

Collin Rugg

@CollinRugg

NEW: CNN, which helped cover up Biden's cognitive decline, asks Gov. Gretchen Whitmer why she covered up Biden's cognitive decline.

 

Lmao. The gaslighting and projection here are off the charts.

 

Pamela Brown: "You stuck with Biden until he dropped out of the race. Given your position in the campaign, what signs of decline did you notice?"

 

Whitmer: "I was busy working. I was busy doing the connection and the voter registration."

 

Brown: "So you didn't see signs of decline?"

 

Whitmer: "I can't speak to that directly."

 

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1923046887814463647

Anonymous ID: 89396d May 15, 2025, 8:24 p.m. No.23040034   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0186

Senior House Dem offers rare praise for Trump

 

President Donald Trump found a surprising new cheerleader for his foreign policy Thursday: Democratic Rep. Jim Himes.

“I’m not in the habit of praising Donald Trump, but I’ve got to tell you, in the last week or so in the Middle East, Ukraine, Russia it’s a different story,” Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said during an interview at POLITICO’s Security Summit.

To explain his position, the Connecticut lawmaker said he feared as recently as last week that Israel was “hell bent on going to war with Iran” — implying Trump helped avert that. He also lauded Trump’s decision to meet with Syria’s new president during his trip to the Middle East. “I’ve got to tell you, I think the president has, in this last week or so, played the Middle East pretty darn well,” he said.

Himes nonetheless made clear he is far from backing Trump’s foreign strategy writ large.

His compliments for Trump’s policies on Ukraine — where Himes said Trump appeared to be cozying up less to Russia in negotiations over how to end the war — were backhanded, suggesting that until recently, Russia had seen Trump as relatively friendly.

Now, Himes said, “I think the Kremlin is thinking like, ‘Whoa, this president, the United States is not the unconditional ally that we might have thought he was.’”

And, Himes said he remained “horrified” by Trump’s treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office in February, when Trump and Vice President JD Vance tore into the Ukrainian leader for being insufficiently grateful for U.S. military support in the war between Russia and Ukraine.

 

https://archive.is/flcTP#selection-983.0-1041.304