Drug Cartels, Money Laundering, and HSBC with Chris Blackhurst and Everett Stern

Reasonably Happy with Paul Ollinger · Aug 30, 2022 · 1h 6m

I've got a great conversation to share with you today about international banking, massive drug cartels and billions and laundered money. My first guest is Chris Blackhurst. He's the author of a book called Too Big to Jail: Inside HSBC, the Mexican drug cartels and the biggest banking scandal of the century. And if you think about that, we've already had a couple of big banking scandals, so this is a big one. The book tells the story of how HSBC ignored money laundering laws and processed BILLIONS in dirty cash for notorious drug lord and murderer El Chapo in the early 2000s and into the…