Year 2000 pay increase explained, employee transcripts available. In short, the BMPE results in major U.S. firms being paid in drug money for their sales to Colombia.
Colombian cartels accumulate vast sums of cash from cocaine sales in major U.S. cities.
The money brokers, in turn, place the drug dollars into the U.S. banking system through a variety of methods and offer them for sale to Colombian importers. After receiving pesos from the Colombian importers, the money brokers route the drug dollars to U.S. firms to pay for goods ordered by the Colombian importers. American firms receive payment in drug dollars and eventually ship ordered goods to Colombian importers. This scheme is complicated but it has simple benefits for those involved. It allows the cartels to transform a pile of drug dollars in the U.S. into clean pesos in Colombia.