Description Pablo Escobar was the King of Cocaine, the wealthiest and most violent criminal in the world.
I am extremely proud of my children, Kait.
I am very proud of the work I did and sacrifices I made.
After completing 20 years of work within the United States I deployed to Baghdad, Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom where I headed a Task Force pursuing international terrorists.
Justice Department, chasing gun traffickers, bombers and terrorists.
Treasury Department chasing money launderers and later with the U.
S.
I went on to spend 20 years as an Agent, first for the U.
S.
Treasury Department became one of the biggest money laundering cases in American law enforcement history.
My first investigation for the U.
S.
About the Author I had always dreamed of becoming a Federal Agent and then it happened.
This is how it all happened.
But that all changed when I followed the lead to Fat Man\'s Coin Store.
It was originally considered to be a dead end, "keep busy" work for a new, inexperienced Agent with little to do.
My first assignment was to follow a lead, a suspicious cash deposit at a local bank.
My first post of duty was Providence, RI.
Treasury Agent.
One year after the new Money Laundering Law was created, I began work as a new U.
S.
In 1987, while his scheme originally went undetected, I was at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Academy in southern Georgia.
While Fat Man relished a life of crime, I dreamed of becoming an agent.
And both were influenced, in very different ways, by the New England Mob, which was headquartered nearby on Federal Hill in Providence, RI.
They lived in similar blue-collar neighborhoods and in all but identical homes.
They grew up just a few miles from each other.
Both were born within just a few days from each other.
And more unlikely than that was the fact that the rookie Agent was Fat Man\'s neighbor.
But what was more unlikely was the fact that it took a rookie Agent to finally uncover the scheme.
It was unlikely that Fat Man, a small town gangster, would ever become an international money launderer for the Colombian Drug Lords.
It is also a behind-the-scenes look at Fat Man himself and his crew, as well as the Agents and Cops who pursued them.
This Story reveals conventional and at times unconventional tactics used by the government in its three-year, worldwide investigation.
It is a step-by-step view of how the scheme worked and how it was ultimately uncovered.
This is the True Story of how it all happened.
By some accounts, Fat Man laundered more than a billion dollars of Drug profits for Pablo Escobar and the other Cartel leaders.
The end result was one of the world\'s largest, most efficient money laundering networks.
Cash, set up a string of phony gold shops crisscrossing America to accommodate it all.
Mr.
And as the dirty cash flow increased, the young mobster, known as Fat Man, a.k.a.
It was the perfect scheme.
The Italian Mafia\'s stolen gold was then used to dispose of the Colombian Cartel\'s dirty cash.
With a few minor adjustments, his Coin shop evolved into a springboard for a new venture, a billion-dollar money laundering scheme.
The shop owner was a young, local mobster who had already been laundering much of the Mob\'s stolen gold.
They found the solution in an unlikely place, a dusty back room of a tiny, rare Coin shop in the small town of Cranston, Rhode Island.
Agents became more and more efficient at finding the dirty cash, stashed inside ship bellies and truck beds at America\'s ports and land borders, Pablo and other Cartel leaders sought a more efficient method to get their money back to Colombia.
But as U.
S.
Drug Money seizures went up.
And the plan was working.
The goal was to take the profit out of Escobar\'s business.
In response, and as part of President Reagan\'s War on Drugs, Congress created the Money Laundering Act of 1986.
The end result was hundreds of millions of dollars in profits, cash profits.
By the 1980s his Medellin Drug Cartel was responsible for smuggling several tons of cocaine into America each and every day, killing thousands of people along the way.
Description Pablo Escobar was the King of Cocaine, the wealthiest and most violent criminal in the world
