31.   The money was confiscated as drug profits.

32.   The study of drug company profits and taxes was done by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.

33.   Then drug profits can be deposited in the account as if they were restaurant earnings.

34.   They have also been encouraged by the government to launder drug profits through the legitimate Burmese economy.

35.   They have traded their ideals for drug profits.

36.   Those drug profits are finding their way into the economy in this island nation.

37.   To launder their drug profits, they put up resorts, casinos and hotels.

38.   Today, U.S. officials say the group has become so corrupted by drug profits that its political goals have become secondary.

39.   Undercover agents picked up drug profits in U.S. cities under the instructions of Mexican or Colombian traffickers.

40.   A U.S. law enforcement official who tracks drug money said drug profits are contributing to the construction boom in Cali and other Colombian cities.