Chippewa Cree online lending boom draws scrutiny
The Chippewa Cree tribe and Plain Green Loans say they have issued more than 121,000 loans this year across the United States with annualized rates up to 360 percent. Critics warn high rates trap borrowers in debt, while Montana officials and consumer groups raise concerns over oversight and data safety.
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Helena
Mont
Montana
Plain Green Loans
Rocky Boy’s
Neal Rosette
Rosette
Native American Leaders Alliance
Rocky Boy
District of Columbia
Montana Banking and Financial Institutions
Melanie Griggs
Griggs
Better Business Bureau
BBB
Jim Molloy
Colorado
Western Sky Financial
North Dakota
Mexico’s Cartel Radio Network Expands Across Mexico and Guatemala
U S and Mexican officials describe a covert cartel communications grid built by the Zetas and Gulf cartel to coordinate drug trafficking kidnapping extortion and other crimes. The system spans 31 states and parts of Guatemala with antennas repeaters and radios enabling encrypted local operations. Authorities report raids seizing hundreds of items and disrupting the network in Veracruz Nuevo Leon Coahuila San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Zetas
U.S
Gulf Coast
Guatemala
Robert Killebrew
Center For
Washington
Veracruz
Nuevo Leon
Coahuila
San Luis Potosi
Tamaulipas
Gulf Cartel
The
Jose Luis del Toro Estrada
Tecnico
Houston
Texas
del Toro
Plaza
Associated Press
Grupo Savant
Gordon Housworth
Intellectual Capital Group
Sinaloa Cartel
Pacific Coast
Barrios Azteca
Ciudad Juarez
el Paso
Kim Jong Un gains prominence with South Korean delegation visit
North Korea's new leader Kim Jong Un welcomed a mourning South Korean delegation led by the widow of Kim Dae-jung and Hyundai chair Hyun Jeong-eun. State media dubbed him supreme leader and head of the Workers' Party Central Committee as he visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace.
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Lee Hee-ho
Kim Dae-jung
Hyundai Group
Hyun Jeong-eun
North Korea
Paju
Demilitarized Zone
South Korea
Pyongyang
Kim Jong UN
Kim Jong II
Seoul
Rodong Sinmun
Workers’ Party
Korean Central
Kumsusan Memorial Palace
Kim
Memorial Palace
Unification Ministry
Kumsusan Palace
North
Kim Jong Il
Yang Moo-jin
University of North Korean Studies
Kaesong
Kim Jong I
Korean People’s Army
National Defense Commission
Kim Il Sung
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Matt Volz
Antena
Orizaba
Zetas Drug Cartel
KCNA
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