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Bruce Liddell

Bruce Liddell (died 2017) was an American financial advisor and money launderer from Chicago, Illinois. He cofounded a firm with his college friend Marty Byrde, and the two men became money launderers for the Mexican drug trafficker Camino Del Rio in 2007. While the two Chicagoans became friends of sorts with Del Rio, Liddell later proposed to Byrde that they secretly embezzle money from the Navarro Cartel by rigging the scales on trucks carrying money by making it appear that their gas tanks were full, thus enabling them to steal some of the cash and make up for the weight discrepancy. In 2017, Del Rio summoned Liddell, Byrde, Liddell's girlfriend, the trucking company owner Clayton Hanson Sr., and Hanson's son Clayton Hanson Jr. to a meeting, where he decided to test them by accusing them of theft. Unwittingly, Liddell and the Hansons admitted to the theft, while Byrde attempted to call Del Rio's bluff. As a result, Del Rio executed the Hansons before forcing Liddell to describe how he had stolen $8 million from the cartel over three years. Del Rio then executed Liddell, and he had the corpses dissolved in acid; he spared Byrde only after Byrde promised to launder exorbitant amounts of money for the cartel at the Lake of the Ozarks.

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