“The Trump administration is ‘decommissioning’ a Department of Justice (DOJ) unit that has long been at the center of dismantling transnational organized crime networks, drug cartels and human trafficking rings,” Bloomberg News reports. Attorneys at the DOJ’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces have been given until Sept. 30, the last date of the federal government’s budget year, to wind up their work — after which DOJ intends to zero out funding for the unit.
For people at risk of falling victim to transnational crime organizations and human traffickers, this is of course bad news. In a day and age when foreign interests appear to be anonymously pouring millions into a cryptocurrency asset controlled by Trump’s family, however — and when the president plans to reward the biggest holders of that asset with a dinner at his company’s northern Virginia country club — one can see why the White House might want fewer eyes on transnational organized crime.
Just who will have access to President Trump during his May 22 dinner?All but 6 of the top 25 $TRUMP memecoin holders (identified only by short usernames) used foreign exchanges closed to U.S. residents—and at least 56% of the 220 total used other offshore exchanges.
— The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) 2025-05-08T00:51:15.989Z
- Trump Team Set to Dissolve Reagan-era Transnational Crime Unit [Bloomberg News]