I said, oh fuck.

My mom had just thrown away 40 grand in drug money.

The legitimate world colludes with the criminal world to hide and clean up money.

When you look at the most successful gangster families in this country, it all traces back to illegal money.

This was my shot to build dynastic wealth.

Hey, what's up you guys? Welcome back to The Connect. My name is Johnny Mitchell. Before we get

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and be sure to leave us a comment. All right, let's get into it. So in this episode,

we're going to be talking about money laundering. Now, I told you how I made my millions

shipping pounds of weed to the East Coast. I got about 1,000 pounds there in a little under 18 months.

Almost all of them made it through. It was the money getting sent back to me that ultimately led to my downfall and arrest.

We're going to be talking about how most drug dealers launder their money, how I did it,

and what I learned is the best way to do it, from talking to people in prison, from my own failures,

and just seeing the inner workings of law enforcement and how they come after drug dealers cash as hard as they come after the drugs themselves.

Money. It is the most important part of any business and especially the drug business.

And authorities know this. And that's why it is now policy for them to come after and seize drug money as aggressively as they go after drugs themselves.

That's because they know that if a drug organization loses all of their money, they can't go get a loan to float them as they try to get back on their feet.

You know, drug dealers can always go get more product.

But if a package of a million dollars gets seized, they try to get back on their feet. You know, drug dealers can always go get more product,

but if a package of a million dollars gets seized on its way back to the drug seller,

that could put them under for good. So money is just absolutely crucial, and it's crucial that it gets laundered in the appropriate ways. What is money laundering?

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