Beneath the veil of quarter horse racing was a multi-million dollar money laundering operation run by the notorious Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas. The incredible true story of how rookie FBI agent Scott Lawson led an investigation that took them down is the subject of a new four-part docuseries from Apple TV+ called Cowboy Cartel. Fresh off his graduation, Lawson found himself in a high-level case with high stakes including lives on the line. He worked tirelessly tracking the racehorse transactions within the United States starting in Loredo and infiltrating the Los Zetas. One false move could have had tragic consequences. The doc sees Lawson reflect on his experience as the case began to break open when farm owner José Treviño Morales sent red flags in 2011 with million-dollar winnings and big bids at horse auctions. Brother of ruthless Zetas leader Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales and Oscar Omar Treviño Morales. Others...
- 7/23/2024
- TV Insider
Mexico’s infamously powerful Los Zetas cartel finds stealthy ways of doing business in the first trailer for Apple TV+’s Cowboy Cartel. Streaming Aug. 2, the docuseries explores the takedown of cartel leaders Omar Treviño Morales and Miguel Treviño Morales, who built a violent money laundering empire under the guise of race-horsing transactions.
“When you think of the drug cartels, you think of the drugs, you think of the violence, and you think of money,” Joe Tone, the author of “Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream,” says in the trailer.
“When you think of the drug cartels, you think of the drugs, you think of the violence, and you think of money,” Joe Tone, the author of “Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream,” says in the trailer.
- 7/23/2024
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
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