During the 1980s, United States Customs Service special agent Robert Mazur uses his undercover alias "Bob Musella" to become a pivotal player for drug lords Money laundering their dirty cash. Later, he infiltrates the Medellin cartel, and helps expose the money-laundering organization of drug lord Pablo Escobar<ref name="FirstLook" /> and take down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), which had secretly taken illegal ownership of First American Bankshares in Washington, D.C.