Cocaine Ring Used Universal Music's Interscope Label To Ship Drugs & Cash
from the drugs-and-music dept
It's no secret that there was a close connection between major record labels and drugs in the past -- but people keep insisting that's all ancient history these days. So it's interesting to find out, via a federal prosecution of a cocaine ring, the news that the effort apparently hid the shipping of cash and cocaine around the country by using concert "road cases" and shipping them to and from Interscope Records' offices. Interscope, of course, is a Universal Music sub-label, which is home to the likes of Eminem and Lady Gaga.Department of Justice prosecutors this week provided defense lawyers with shipping records detailing “pickups and deliveries” made at Interscope’s Los Angeles office by a cargo firm that was used to transport the music cases, which were alternately stuffed with kilos of cocaine and upwards of $1 million in cash.Perhaps, rather than worrying so much about the impact of "piracy," the folks at Universal Music should be paying attention to the drug dealing happening via its own offices. Just saying.
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Piracy is killing the drug trade!
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Or the inaccuracies of Hollywood Accounting...
Or the fact that publishing is having a great year.
Tell me, was there a point to this besides throwing your temper tantrum like a child?
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Mike said: "It's no secret that there was a close connection between major record labels and drugs in the past"
How is the close connection in the past and this more recent occurrence just, "one time?"
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Girl: "This one time, at Interscope, we fixed the accounts so it looked like no one made any money, and we kept the profits."
Guy: "Meh."
Girl: "This one time, at Interscope, we did coke."
Guy: "Meh."
Girl: "This one time, at Interscope, we downloaded a song."
Guy: "You're a criminal!!!111!"
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Now who do you think will win this, the guys doing drugs or the guys doing the books?
Please prove that you are not a total idiot and show us your marvelous plan to stop piracy.
No seriously because I need some laughs right now.
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And what praytell is your pocket cause that is so vitally important that you've overlooked mentioning?
(hint its on page 3 of the talking points memo)
Given the music industries demands that service providers do more to support their business model, the other side of that coin is as they had their system used to run a drug operation shouldn't they be facing charges themselves?
So other than just trying to troll, and doing a piss poor job of it... did you have a real point or have you gotten the Mike bashing out of your system for the time being?
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Just One other case please
Prove me wrong and produce your evidence you low life.
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We know from ICE that if your property is used to facilitate crime (regardless of whether you did it yourself), the government can seize it. So I'm waiting to hear of when the feds will be taking over this postal address.
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.....no, wait a minute, none of them have. Not one. Not a single one. Could it actually be that the music industry is simply rotten to the core?
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Actually it's against a record label, which is not "the music industry", just one tiny piece of it. Don't flatter yourself.
"Seriously Mike, every time you post one of these tantrums like a spoiled brat screaming for attention, you hurt your credibility for the actual serious causes people SHOULD pay attention to."
Replace Mike's name with yours and this statement makes perfect sense.
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that is the biggest collected amount of fecal matter emanating from the male of the species bov taurus that i have viewed in quite some time.
its hypocrisy laden tripe which forces me to label you as either one whose family tree has no forks or alternately a member of the tsuri ilk commonly found under bridges.
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At a loss as to how anyone can claim I hate the music industry, when just three stories down I was celebrating artists making more money than ever before.
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This explains so much...
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Wonder who paid for moving the cases
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Just search "celebrities worst mugshots", most of them are recent from this last decade apparently they are drinking more and one can only assume it is because of piracy right?
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Accused of pedo
http://crime.about.com/od/famousdiduno/ig/mugshots_rap_hip_rb/R-Kelly-Mugshot--1-.htm
Murde r
http://crime.about.com/od/famousdiduno/p/philspector_b.htm
Sex offender
http://crime.about.com/od/famousdiduno/ig/celebrity_mugshots/Jeffrey-Jones.htm
Pot possession
http://crime.about.com/od/famousdiduno/ig/celebrity_mugshots/Willie-Nelson.htm
Murder
http://crime.about.com/od/murder/p/cmurder.htm
And people want to give money to those people?
Yeh right.
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"I-I-I-I don't know!"
"Is that cocaine on your coffee table?"
"I swear, it's not mine! The pirates must've put it there or something!"
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According to their own standards, doesn't it make them liable?
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No, no, no. That's not how it works. Third party liability would be extended to the postage label manufacturers, for making accessible and redirecting to criminal activities.
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Learn from each other
The music labels from the drug dealers: how to sell something people want to buy instead of trying to force them to buy what they don't want.
The drug dealers from the music labels: how to properly buy politicians, so your competitors get thrown in jail instead of you.
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Funny that the place that buys luxury goods is also the place where people are in love with the idea of consumerism, it is the place where there are little to no protections in the form of IP laws.
The world have changed, the "magic" from the entertainment industry is gone in the west, their appeal is slowly fading away and giving way to other dark emotions that can only lead to loss of sales.
People will move on and the "industry" will pay the price for being so antagonistic.
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Look at the criminals the industry needs to fight to understand how they are outgunned.
http://boingboing.net/2011/09/20/another-illegal-kitchen-garden.html
It seems the American government wants to transform everybody into a criminal these days except the true criminals.
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One set for the uber rich and another for everyone else.
Your tax supported law enforcement probably helped ensure the safe and timely arrival of said packages.
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"Buying CDs funds drugs and terrorists"
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Thank you for FINALLY giving me an answer
Now I see that piracy is cutting into the CD sales, so organized crime cannot ship as much cocaine as they need to. OMG, think of the children missing out on their cocaine!! Bad pirates.
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Thank you for FINALLY giving me an answer
Now I see that piracy is cutting into the CD sales, so organized crime cannot ship as much cocaine as they need to. OMG, think of the children missing out on their cocaine!! Bad pirates.
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Considering ..
Drugs and music have been together a lot since the 60s at least.
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Well
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At least
God DAMN IT!!!! this press conference is OVER!
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Brings a whole new meaning to packet sniffing
Sorry couldn't resist
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Ah ha
They are, quite literally, on crack.
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