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It was the sort of scoop any ambitious journalist would jump on. But reporting it could have cost Jorge Quintero his life. With the help of local officials, a bank manager in the small southwestern Colombian town of Florencia allegedly funneled $11 million in public funds into the foreign bank account of a convicted drug trafficker. Despite sitting on a pile of incriminating documents, Quintero wrote nothing. Full Story