How Drug Cartel Gold Ends Up at the U.S. Mint

2026-04-26 09:01 • ;Justin Scheck, Rebecca Suner, James Surdam, Lauren Pruitt and Federico Rios
The U.S. Mint is legally required to sell only legal, domestic gold. Instead, it is the last link in a chain that launders foreign gold for an insatiable market. Our reporter Justin Scheck traced one such supply chain: from an illegal mine in Colombia all the way to the Mint’s facilities in West Point, N.Y.
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