Joseph Cox

the institutional baggage of the doj sort of hanging over him he sees this as a really cool chance to disrupt the drug trade whereas ordinarily in san diego what prosecutors and other agencies are doing is like we'll just seize drugs at the border we'll give these poor disenfranchised people who are probably trying to make two or three thousand dollars spuggling coke across the border we'll give them a pre-written plea deal you know and we'll move on with our lives

the institutional baggage of the doj sort of hanging over him he sees this as a really cool chance to disrupt the drug trade whereas ordinarily in san diego what prosecutors and other agencies are doing is like we'll just seize drugs at the border we'll give these poor disenfranchised people who are probably trying to make two or three thousand dollars spuggling coke across the border we'll give them a pre-written plea deal you know and we'll move on with our lives

Andrew Young and other prosecutors and the FBI around him, they wanted to do something different. They wanted to do something that would actually disrupt, of course, not just the encrypted phone industry, but disrupt how drug crimes are investigated in the US or around the world.

Andrew Young and other prosecutors and the FBI around him, they wanted to do something different. They wanted to do something that would actually disrupt, of course, not just the encrypted phone industry, but disrupt how drug crimes are investigated in the US or around the world.

Andrew Young and other prosecutors and the FBI around him, they wanted to do something different. They wanted to do something that would actually disrupt, of course, not just the encrypted phone industry, but disrupt how drug crimes are investigated in the US or around the world.

When they started looking at this data, they realized, oh no, we need to triple that estimate, basically. It was like, they already knew, of course, the contours of organized crime, but an entire iceberg emerged underneath the water's surface, where it was like, oh no, this is way bigger than we anticipated. And

When they started looking at this data, they realized, oh no, we need to triple that estimate, basically. It was like, they already knew, of course, the contours of organized crime, but an entire iceberg emerged underneath the water's surface, where it was like, oh no, this is way bigger than we anticipated. And

When they started looking at this data, they realized, oh no, we need to triple that estimate, basically. It was like, they already knew, of course, the contours of organized crime, but an entire iceberg emerged underneath the water's surface, where it was like, oh no, this is way bigger than we anticipated. And

Something that doesn't normally come up in ordinary criminal investigations, but it did with Anom, is the sheer amount of public corruption involved in the drug trade. You're going to have corrupt law enforcement officials giving tips to their criminal cohorts, You can have people in ports, in airports as well.

Something that doesn't normally come up in ordinary criminal investigations, but it did with Anom, is the sheer amount of public corruption involved in the drug trade. You're going to have corrupt law enforcement officials giving tips to their criminal cohorts, You can have people in ports, in airports as well.

Something that doesn't normally come up in ordinary criminal investigations, but it did with Anom, is the sheer amount of public corruption involved in the drug trade. You're going to have corrupt law enforcement officials giving tips to their criminal cohorts, You can have people in ports, in airports as well.

And there's sort of this interface between the criminal world and the legitimate economy. And it turns out these actually overlap way more than many of the officials reading the messages actually previously understood.

And there's sort of this interface between the criminal world and the legitimate economy. And it turns out these actually overlap way more than many of the officials reading the messages actually previously understood.

And there's sort of this interface between the criminal world and the legitimate economy. And it turns out these actually overlap way more than many of the officials reading the messages actually previously understood.

It's bigger than we all thought, and it intersects with the surface world or the legitimate economy in way more ways than I think anybody anticipated. You've seen some of the material that they saw. Like, what have you seen? So, when the FBI started digging through the unknown messages, what they found was that the content was overwhelmingly criminal.

It's bigger than we all thought, and it intersects with the surface world or the legitimate economy in way more ways than I think anybody anticipated. You've seen some of the material that they saw. Like, what have you seen? So, when the FBI started digging through the unknown messages, what they found was that the content was overwhelmingly criminal.

It's bigger than we all thought, and it intersects with the surface world or the legitimate economy in way more ways than I think anybody anticipated. You've seen some of the material that they saw. Like, what have you seen? So, when the FBI started digging through the unknown messages, what they found was that the content was overwhelmingly criminal.

Usually, if a wiretap is like, oh, there's a little bit of crime, but maybe they're talking to their wife or husband or whatever. Here, it's like, no, they're just straight up talking about cocaine all the time. No code words, nothing like that. And I later obtained...

Usually, if a wiretap is like, oh, there's a little bit of crime, but maybe they're talking to their wife or husband or whatever. Here, it's like, no, they're just straight up talking about cocaine all the time. No code words, nothing like that. And I later obtained...

Usually, if a wiretap is like, oh, there's a little bit of crime, but maybe they're talking to their wife or husband or whatever. Here, it's like, no, they're just straight up talking about cocaine all the time. No code words, nothing like that. And I later obtained...