The Dynamics of Illicit Markets, Organized Crime and Law Enforcement

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Moderator
Mr. Abner Kurtin
Drugs and National Security Colloquium

Panelists

Drug Trafficking, Law Enforcement and the City of Miami
Detective Alejandro Alvarez
The Chief Investigator of CENTAC 26, an anti-corruption unit, Alvarez exposed the extensive drug dealing and police brutality of the Miami police department and The Serpico of cocaine wars in Florida. He is a member of the Homicide Division of the Metro-Dade Police department.

A law Enforcement Perspective on Trafficking and National Drug Policy
Mr. Thomas Cash
The Special Agent in charge of the Miami field division for the Drug Enforcement Administration and former Assistant Chief of INTERPOL, his career positions within the DEA include service as the Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Operations Division, the Country Attache and Special Agent in Charge of the Bonn Office, and the Assistant Regional Director of the European Division in Paris.

An Intimate View of the Problem
Mr. Richard Gregorie
The former Chief of Narcotics Section in Miami and the former Chief of Criminal Division of the Justice Department for the Southern District of Florida, he was the Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of international drug prosecution before he entered into private practice. As the assistant U.S attorney, he initiated the indictment of General Manuel Antonio Noriega. His other prosecutions of drug traffickers include the Vice Admiral of the Cuban Navy (U.S. vs. Jaime Guillot-Lara) and Prime Minister Norman Saunders of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Criminality & Illicit Markets-A Conceptual Overview
Dr. Peter Lupsha
A professor of political science at the University of New Mexico, he is an expert on organized crime, with particular emphasis on comparative and transnational organizations. The author of a book-length manuscript titled Drug Trafficking Politics and Policy: The United States and Latin America, he also presented Coping with Transnational Crime: A Focus on Latin American Drug Trafficking Criminality to a U.N international seminar on combating organized crime.

The Economics of the Drug Trade and the Impact of Money Laundering on the U.S. Economy-Slide Lecture
Mr. Michael McDonald
The IRS Coordinator for the Florida/Caribbean, Central and South American Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force and the director of Operation Greenback, which monitors the financial empire of the Medellin Cocaine Cartel, he is an expert in money laundering techniques and has spent his entire 18-year career with the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS.

From Farm to Street: The Criminal Drug Distribution
Dr. Peter Reuter
A senior economist at the RAND Corporation in Washington D.C., he is the author of Quantity Illusion and the Paradoxes of Drug Interdiction: Federal Intervention into Vice Policy (Law and Contemporary Problems), forthcoming and Sealing the Borders: The Effect of Increased Military Participation in Drug Interdiction.