“They make a lot of money doing business with corrupt individuals. But if they get caught, they do a risk assessment.'
This article is a follow-up to Follow the Money, originally published in May 2021. Every time Chase Bank employees in Texas asked Héctor Javier Villarreal Hernández how he earned his money, he gave a different response. It came from his family’s restaurant businesses in Mexico. A Mercedes dealership he owned. Airplane sales he brokered to the state of Coahuila, which borders Texas from Laredo to Big Bend.
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