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- ± BUSINESS, Page 73Business NotesDRUG MONEYToo Soft on The Laundry
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- The Bush Administration talks tough about drugs, but its
- effort to stem the laundering of drug profits through banks is
- only semitough at best. So says Massachusetts Democrat John
- Kerry, who last week released a report urging Bush to take
- sterner measures to interrupt the laundering of an estimated
- $300 billion in drug profits around the world.
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- Kerry commended the White House for demanding changes in the
- banking system of Panama, where the former regime of General
- Manuel Noriega had allowed banks to become a transit point for
- billions of dollars in drug profits. Yet Kerry's Foreign
- Relations Committee found the Administration's campaign against
- laundering to be halfhearted.
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- "Federal agencies responsible for enforcement are being
- funded at inadequate levels to accomplish the mission," said
- the report. The Administration is going slow on the issue,
- Kerry maintained, because "it involves big money, big profits
- and big questions about the structure of our banking system."
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