Mexican Drug Cartel Boss Busted, with $22 billion in CASH! (PHOTOS)

Check out these photos:

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Thanks to Don Ronaldo for this one ...



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/2014 07:23AM by Farkem.

C'mon Farkem... I mean cool pics and all but this isn't journalism.

These photos are dated 2008. The gold guns made the headlines here then, Hardly news. And the cash was in the millions not billions. It would take ware houses to store that amount.

Don't believe every number you see posted on the Internet! Is there a lot of cash shown in that room – absolutely! Is it $22 Billion – not even close! Using dimensions of US currency as (6.14 x 2.61 x .0043 in) one can calculate the value of US $100 bills in a given volume. Using the above dimensions I calculate ~$2.508 million per cu. ft. or ~$88.57 million per cu. meter.

Counting the stacks of bills shown in the room I estimate the dimensions of the pile to be 34 rows wide by 12 rows deep. I estimate the height at ~24 inches based on the later photo showing cops legs. This yields a volume of ~90.8 cu. ft. with a value of ~$227.7 million in US $100 bills. This is definitely a lot of money in anyone's world but it is short of $22 Billion by a factor of 100!

A spreadsheet is available for those who doubt my math.

Later in the essay the author continues to demonstrate that he is seriously math impaired. He claims that the value of cash and items in the house would pay for health care for every man, woman and child in the US for 12 years. Lets assume that things were really worth $22 Billion as claimed.

$22 Billion/12 Years = $1.83 Billion per year. The US population as of the 2010 census was ~308 million. Dividing $1.83 Billion per year by 308 million people gives a whopping $6 per person per year. Now that's cheap health coverage!

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Flaco:

Presenting this was not an exercise in journalism -- I knew it was dated -- but it was getting an inside look into the drug cartel that I'd never seen before, and thought others would be interested as well.

I don't care how much money is or is not there -- it's just one hell of a big pile of cash in anybody's book.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/15/2014 02:25PM by Farkem.

Hello MOJ
Got to admire math nuts like you
Heck I need to remove my socks and use my toes to count for anything more then 10
Wayne Overby



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/15/2014 02:53PM by wayne overby.

Still incredible....

Farkem who is the narco? Where is the house? Did any of it ever really happen?

Reality is hard enough in Mexico...

What I don't understand ...why burn it.... The money came into production ..legally and at one point was hard worked for honest money....why burn it.... Redistribute it into education or health or other programs ...it's still money that in some ways was taken from people through ( addiction etc). Give it back to people in another form.

Who says they burned it, whatever it is? The piece is a big load of caca de la vaca!

C'mon Farkem, you're the retired newspaper editor...

Last picture said it was burned..sounds like its a wag the dog story.

Burned a whole in some official's pocket, I would suspect.

Burned a whole in some official's pocket, I would suspect.

A whole?

a whole hole. As an old professor of mine said, "Great minds never learn to spell."