Longtime TPMers will remember that going on a decade ago we did a lot of reporting on this totally crazy story: a few Florida stoner bros who got into the business of arms dealing, servicing the Bush administration’s goal of standing up an Afghan security force (fast, really fast)which needed tons of Soviet era munitions. The big cheese was 21 year old high school dropout Efraim Diveroli; the second cheese was 25 year old David Packouz, a part-time masseuse. Makes perfect sense right? It was all going great until they got greedy and stupid and the feds got involved. Not the ones who needed millions of Russian bullets but the ones who indict you. Now, we’ve got a much deeper dive, with years of history and fall out and reporting to give us a fuller picture of just what on earth was going on with these jokers. Check it out.
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