The Laminated Lie: How a Wet Manifest Blew Open a $2.3M Smuggling Ring
The Laminated Lie: How a Wet Manifest Blew Open a $2.3M Smuggling Ring
A laminated cargo manifest, still wet and snagged on a trotline forty feet from a breakwater, turned out to document a $2.3 million load of counterfeit electronics hidden as "textile machinery" - and the fake paper dissolved a carefully built smuggling wall. Who made the forged manifest, why was it laminated and dumped in the Gulf, and how did one tossed sheet lead to arrests and a courtroom-changing chemical analysis?
In this episode, we follow the chain from the morning of September 11, 2019 when Glenn Lewis found the…
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