From Iran to Mexican Drug Cartels: Money Laundering and Terrorism Explained

With Zuhdi Jasser, Robert Mazur, Jonathan Shanzer, and Gordon Chang.

President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, ZUHDI JASSER, discusses how John Brennan has never acknowledged political Islam as a threat and reports on the situation on the ground in Egypt where some anti-Muslim Brotherhood groups perceive America as abandoning values of democracy.

ROBERT MAZUR, author of The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel, reveals his experiences working undercover investigating Mexican drug cartel money laundering that led him to write his book. In The Infiltrator, he exposes the businessmen and bankers that clean and transfer billions of dollars worth of dirty money worldwide according to the will of drug-lords, terrorists, corrupt politicians and tax-cheaters. In this exclusive interview with Frank, Mazur talks about the need to identify the individuals in the banking community responsible for these crimes and prosecute them.

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Vice President of Research at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, JONATHAN SHANZER explains how US sanctions on Iran have been ineffective because the regime has  been creatively pushing its money through Europe instead.

GORDON CHANG, from forbes.com, emphasizes the severity of Chinese cyber-warfare, citing Chinese military attacks on the New York Times, and explains that Obama administration’s efforts to cooperate are ineffective because the Chinese perceive them as weakness.