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34: Part 2: Aaron Graham and the Counterfeiting of Medicine by Cartels and Terrorists

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Aaron Graham started off as a San Diego police officer but went to DEA to concentrate on cartel activity originating from Mexico because he had seen first-hand growing up the devastation that had been inflicted. He worked with Steve Murphy and Javier Pena to follow up leads during the manhunt for Pablo Escobar, but after retirement began working with pharmaceutical companies to Identify and stop the counterfeiting of everything from cough syrup to cancer medications. The money generated from this illegal activity was funding cartels, criminal gangs and terrorism. Aaron gives us insight on what it takes to make a case and why it is so important.




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0:00.0

Aaron goes into detail about how they make cases on counterfeit drugs.

0:17.9

You know, we worked very close to a law enforcement, but as you can well imagine, and Steve,

0:21.7

when he was in West Virginia, and in Miami, the phone rings, and everybody's got, hey,

0:25.4

this guy at the corner walking, don't walk, he wears a black hat, he's slinging coke.

0:28.5

Okay, great.

0:29.5

I'm going to do that.

0:30.7

And I don't want to be that guy calling the Phoenix PD or LAPD or Sheriff's Office today.

0:34.4

There's bad stuff happening.

0:36.0

So if we have intelligence that that's happening, we run it just like we would at DEA.

0:40.4

We go out and make test buys.

0:42.2

We buy the product.

0:43.2

We have it analyzed.

0:44.3

We create a portfolio of evidence.

0:46.1

It's just like we will with a DEA7, 7A, put together a whole file of it.

0:50.7

We do surveillance.

0:52.7

And once we have what we think is a representative case, it's very clear that we have a lot

0:57.2

of activities all adding up.

0:58.8

We know who the players are.

1:00.4

We've done surveillance.

1:01.4

We've worked through the first person we've bought from to buy from their source.

1:05.0

So we've gotten to a middle-level distributor.

1:07.3

Once we have all that, it's well organized.

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