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Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Pilot: The Untold Story of TJ Dominguez (Part 2 of 3)
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He wasn’t just flying for Pablo Escobar anymore — he was running an empire in the sky.By the mid-1980s, TJ Dominguez had gone from smuggling weed by boat to commanding planes stuffed with thousands of kilos of cocaine, streaming into South Florida under the Medellín Cartel’s watch. At the height of his power, TJ was making twenty million dollars a month, building an empire of speedboats, luxury cars, and even his own Bahamian hotel-turned-airstrip to keep the operation alive.But every fortune has its cracks. The DEA was circling, the deals were getting riskier, and one wrong move could mean prison — or worse.Now, in Part Two of this exclusive three-part series, TJ reveals the scale of the…