How about a saturday morning 🧵on how Chinese organized crime built a drug trafficking empire in Maine with U.S. taxpayer dollars?

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Link 2: themainewire.com/2023/11/triad-…
themainewire.com/2024/02/how-th… The story revolves around Quontic Bank, a "Community Development Finance Institution" (CDFI). Basically, that means they get tax dollars to make riskier loans to non-citizens w/ no income. It's a humdrum bank until 2020, when this happens:

Xisen Guo, 67, arrested at an illegal drug trafficking hub in Passadumkeag, Maine -- a town of less than 500 people.

Guo was charged with felony trafficking. Cops seized 40 lbs of marijuana and some methamphetamine.

If you follow the corporate/real estate record trail, this one gets interesting...
themainewire.com/2024/02/triad-… The house itself is fairly typical for triad grows we've found in Maine: large detached buildings, remote, very little attention from cops, abundant power.

But it was among the first purchased in Maine.

Records show it was purchased in Feb. 2020 by "GC Realty 168"

Amber Lavigne discovered a chest binder in her 13-year-old daughter's bedroom.

She later learned a 26-year-old UMaine grad student with a conditional license to practice social work at her daughter's school had given it to her.

themainewire.com/2022/12/social… Lavigne told the story at a school board meeting on Wednesday. You can watch her testimony here. rumble.com/v20zf1q-maine-…

To enforce the "Thou Shall Not Help Deport" policy of Suffolk County, Rollins has ordered her employees to surveil courtrooms for agents of Homeland Security.

If an evil ICE agent is spotted doing his or her job, Suffolk DA employees are now required to call Rollins. So you're an illegal alien heroin dealer arrested for driving without a license. ICE has been watching you for a bit and see you're going to be in a courthouse.

One of Rollins' narcs sees ICE and calls the boss.

What then? The Rollins Memo doesn't say...

The DA of Suffolk County, MA has released new guidelines -- "The Rachel Rollins Policy Memo" -- and the new policy is absolutely insane.

I just finished reading the memo, here's an overview. [thread] Here's a key phrase: "collateral consequences." Rollins wants her office to consider what happens to a cocaine or heroin dealer when they've been convicted for dealing drugs.