Mexico is notoriously powerful The Los Zetas cartel finds covert ways of doing business in the first trailer for Apple TV+ Cowboy cartel. Streaming on August 2, the documentary explores the takedown of cartel leaders Omar Treviño Morales and Miguel Treviño Morales, who built a violent money-laundering empire under the guise of horse racing trading.
“When you think of drug cartels, you think of drugs, violence and money,” says Joe Towne, author of Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels and the Borderland Dream. in the trailer. “But you don't think of horses.” He continues: “Racers and wealthy businessmen usually inhabit the winner's circle. But suddenly, there's this new owner who keeps winning named Jose Treviño.”
When he first suspected that the Treviño brothers were using Los Zetas to launder money through horse racing businesses, the specificity of the situation created a conundrum: how do you prove their business is illegal? Scott Lawson, a rookie FBI agent at the time, cracked the case leading to a high-risk mission to bring down the cartel. “12,000 law enforcement personnel had to target the Zetas that same day,” he says in the clip. “My biggest fear was that every target would go to Mexico and be untouchable.”
Cowboy cartel depicts the agonizing infiltration of the cartel, which exposed the money laundering operation and led to the dismantling of the deadly organization. Tone published “Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream” in 2017, four years after Miguel's arrest and two years after Omar's arrest.
The documentary features first-time interviews with Tone, Lawson, IRS Agent Steve Pennington, Assistant United States Attorney Doug Gardner, reporter Ginger Thompson, Irving Police Officers Steve Junker, Brian Schutt and Kim Williams and others.
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