Bishop73

14th Jun 2022

Swordfish (2001)

Question: When Ginger lies to Stan about being an undercover agent, why does she say she's with the DEA of all things, as opposed to the FBI, NSA, or even ATF? Unless I'm misremembering, I don't think the movie makes any mention of Gabriel being involved in drug trafficking.

Phaneron

Chosen answer: Because the money they're stealing is the DEA's. Operation Swordfish was the DEA setting up dummy corporations to launder drug money. When the operation was ended, $400M was left and earned interest, making it worth billions.

Bishop73