everyone is talking about how much pablo escobar made. he actually made the list of wealthiest people in the world. a mexican drug trafficker has joined that infamous list. you know if you're on the list your days are numbered because you're giving too much attention. if we look in our history, some of our founding family fortunes are built on illicit trade another dimension to brown brothers, and we can look to the hancock family in boston. we can look to america's first multimillionaire, john jacob astor. how did make his money? he made his money in opm smugly, trading during the war of 1812. most importantly by selling illicit alcohol to native americans in exchange for a much coveted and profitable first. the trade was banned by the federal government but clearly enforced, so the american trading come any specialized essentially and exchanging alcohol for her and he's remembered as america's wealthiest man first multimillionaire. last but not least, there's much talk in the immigration reform debate going on for years now how our bord