NPR - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen travels to Atlanta today, where she's expected to announce new financial sanctions against individuals and organizations involved in fentanyl trafficking. Street fentanyl kills more than 70,000 Americans a year and generates billions of dollars annually in black market profits. Law enforcement agencies are already seizing a lot more fentanyl at the border and inside the U.S.. But fentanyl is so easy and cheap to make that when cops capture a big batch, cartels just churn out more. "That’s seen as a relatively harmless cost of doing business," Mann reports. Yellen's expected sanctions aim to disrupt fentanyl networks by seizing cash and assets and penalizing legitimate companies that support the drug trade.
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