American Made

American Made

Transcript

00:00To hide his money, he specifically bought a 3,000 square meter mansion.

00:03The bedroom was used to store gold, while the living room was filled with suitcases packed with cash.

00:08Every time his wife looked for shoes, it took her half a day because all the shoeboxes were stuffed with money.

00:14Every day, Jimmy would bring home a ton of banknotes.

00:16Before long, the mansion couldn't hold all his money.

00:19Cash spilling out of the wardrobe nearly crushed him to death.

00:22So, he built a stable to stash more money, but it was still far from enough.

00:25Every night, Jimmy would dig holes in the yard to bury money, but after a whole night of hard work,

00:29he only dug up the money he had buried last time.

00:32Left with no choice, Jimmy had to deposit the money in banks.

00:36Because of Jimmy, this small town with a population of less than a thousand opened more than a dozen banks.

00:41The banks even emptied their vaults to serve Jimmy exclusively.

00:44Just like that, Jimmy deposited billions of dollars in each bank.

00:47The next step was to launder all this cash.

00:50To do this, Jimmy set up numerous shell companies and hired homeless folks and senior citizens as CEOs.

00:54However, the pace of money laundering still couldn't keep up with the rate at which he was depositing funds.

01:00Even though everyone knew that Jimmy's wealth was dirty money, no cop dared to arrest him.

01:04Instead, the CIA and DEA came to him for help.

01:08Jimmy was originally just your average pilot.

01:10His salary wasn't all that high, just enough to get by.

01:13So, Jimmy often took advantage of his position to smuggle some cigarettes and earn a little extra cash on the side.

01:18But the CIA quickly caught wind of his operation.

01:20The agent, however, didn't arrest him.

01:23Instead, he used the smuggling crime to threaten Jimmy.

01:26Jimmy had some serious flying chops.

01:28And the CIA needed him to pilot this massive plane at low altitudes over Central America to snap photos of the local rebels' positions.

01:34Jimmy was born for thrills, so he immediately agreed to the agent's proposal.

01:38But this mission turned out to be way more dangerous than he ever imagined.

01:42Every time he flew near the rebel base, he'd come under heavy fire from those insurgents.

01:46Luckily, Jimmy had some incredible flying skills and always managed to cheat death.

01:50Since he spent so much time flying around the rainforests of Central America, he'd long been on the radar of a Colombian drug cartel.

01:56And that's how Jimmy was about to become a billionaire.