The Infiltrator: How Undercover Customs Agent - Played By Bryan Cranston In New Movie - Spent Two Years Partying In $1,000-A-Night Hotels, Driving A Rolls Convertible And Flying On A Private Jets And Then Trapped 85 Drug Lords At Staged Wedding

Over the weekend my wife and I watched director Michael Mann's film The Infiltrator on cable TV.

We enjoyed watched the crime film, which is based on a true case. I ordered the book online and I look forward to reading it.

In the film actor Bryan Cranston portrayed U.S. Customs Special Agent Robert Mazur (seen in the below photo), who went undercover and infiltrated the Colombian drug cartel and the world of crooked bankers.

Daniel Bates at the British newspaper The Daily Mail offers a piece on the true story behind the film.

As the drug lords relaxed by the pool sipping cocktails, they took turns to congratulate the friend who had invited them all to his wedding party.

Wealthy businessman Bob Musella worked the crowd of traffickers in 1988, who trusted him implicitly after he had laundered millions of their dollars from the heroin trade.

But the party was actually a rouse, the wedding was a fake and the 'couple' were both undercover US Customs agents who had spent the last two years duping them.

Even the 50 'family and friends' sipping drinks and making polite conversation were federal agents in disguise.

By the end of the night dozens of Colombian cartel bankers and high-ranking dealers had been arrested in one of the biggest takedowns in the history of US Customs.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3692397/How-undercover-customs-agent-played-Bryan-Cranston-new-movie-spent-two-years-partying-1-000-night-hotels-driving-Rolls-convertible-flying-private-jets-arranged-arrest-85-drug-lords-staged-wedding.html

True Crime: How A Guy From Staten Island Brought Drug Lords To Their Knees

Michael Kaplan at the New York Post offers a piece on the law enforcement agent portrayed in the film The Infliltrator.

In the 1980s, Staten Island native Robert Mazur was hired to launder over $100 million for some of the world’s largest drug-trafficking syndicates. Underworld kingpins, who knew him as Bob Musella, considered him family. But there was one thing they did not know: The money-mover was an undercover agent for the US government.

“I got my high from obtaining information that nobody else could get,” Mazur, now in his 60s, tells The Post.

His exploits — which resulted in more than 100 indictments, in excess of 3,000 pounds of cocaine confiscated, and seizures and penalties that exceeded $500 million — form the basis of “The Infiltrator,” starring Bryan Cranston as Mazur and opening in movie theaters on Wednesday.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://nypost.com/2016/07/09/how-a-guy-from-staten-island-brought-drug-lords-to-their-knees/