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Jason excelled in the company. He updated his statistical models everyday with new data. He had developed a complex algorithm that helped predict where the police and military would strike next. Sixty-five percent of the cartel’s profits came from drugs. Among drugs, cocaine remained the most profitable commodity, followed by heroin and fentanyl. The cartel made very little from m*******a trafficking. Not only is m*******a not as lucrative as cocaine and heroin, but the legalization of the drug in some states in the United States changed the economics of m*******a production and trafficking.
Jason used to joke that he could not calculate what other cartels made off drugs, given that the information was not public.
“Cartels did not have to report all banking statements to the governme
