Tag: fentanyl
U.S. and Mexico Try to Boost Trade While Curbing Flow of Fentanyl
In Mexico City visit, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen sought to deepen economic ties while countering drug trafficking.
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U.S. Moves to Crack Down on Money Behind Fentanyl Trade
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen will travel to Mexico this week for talks on countering illicit finance and fentanyl.
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U.S. to Press China to Stop Flow of Fentanyl
President Biden will put pressure on Xi Jinping to crack down on the Chinese facilities that make chemical compounds used in potent drugs.
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US Treasury sanctions crypto wallets as authorities crack down on fentanyl
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury has sanctioned crypto wallets allegedly connected to indiv [...]
Chinese Firms Used Crypto Payments to Run Fentanyl Network, U.S. Claims in Charges
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) targeted several Chinese businesses and their employees Tuesday in the latest round of charges tied to production [...]
Republicans’ Promises to Combat Fentanyl Fall Flat With Some Voters
Republicans are making big promises about combating fentanyl. Their words ring hollow to some who know too much about the drug’s deadly toll.
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US Treasury sanctions Ethereum wallet tied to cartel over ‘illicit fentanyl trafficking’
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury has added a crypto wallet allegedly connected to a major i [...]
On immigration, terrorists and fentanyl, DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas has something to say
Mayorkas’s department is charged with preventing foreign and domestic terrorist attacks. It monitors threats from weapons of mass destruction, protec [...]
California Battles Fentanyl With a New Tactic: Treating Addiction in Prison
In blistering 100-degree heat one recent afternoon at Valley State Prison in California’s Central Valley, inmates crowded around small windows in a pr [...]
New Fentanyl Laws Ignite Debate Over Combating Overdose Crisis
Three teenage girls were found slumped in a car in the parking lot of a rural Tennessee high school last month, hours before graduation ceremonies. Tw [...]
Why Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong About Crypto and the Fentanyl Epidemic
Notably, the drug industry does and does not include everything from the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of illicit substances, depend [...]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren points to crypto payments as facilitating fentanyl trade in China
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has suggested a link between cryptocurrency payments and companies based in China that provided precursors for [...]
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren Calls for Shutdown of Crypto Funding for Fentanyl from China
“Unfortunately, that is a mode that some of these precursor manufacturers and illicit drug organizations have used – the receipt of bitcoin payments i [...]
Fentanyl Crypto-Related Trade Worth Tens of Millions: Chainalysis, Elliptic
Elliptic, which published its report on the topic Tuesday, says cryptocurrency wallets attached to darknet merchants which sell fentanyl as well as pr [...]
El Chapo’s Sons Face Sweeping New Charges in Fentanyl Indictments
Federal officials announced a flurry of charges on Friday against the four sons of the notorious Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, saying the men w [...]