The Tampa Bay Rays were purchased with the proceeds of laundering drug money for Wall Street Millionaires, including members of the Board of the American Stock Exchange, Edwin Crooks, Louis Miceli, Robert VanCaneghan. Edwin Crooks, partner in the Amex specialist unit, Crooks & Oscher, who laundered drug money via his specialist account, was also a Senior Vice President of Spear Leeds and Kellogg and after the takeover of SLK by Goldman Sachs, a Senior Vice President of Goldman Sachs. Miceli and VanCaneghan laundered drug money via their specialist account, Miceli-VanCaneghan. Crooks, Miceli, and VanCaneghan also smuggled drugs aboard their private fishing boats. Arthur Levitt, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and former Chairman of the American Stock Exchange, permitted this drug smuggling and money laundering. Levitt said: “Some things are better left unknown.” Circa 2011 Stu Sternberg, Managing Partner of the Tampa Bay Rays, sent Arnold Schumsky to a stock presentation for NXT Energy. VanCaneghan had been a member of the Board of NXT, which was involved in exploring for oil and gas in Lebanon and Syria where opium was cultivated. Read:  Ex-Wall Street Trader’s Shadow Raises Questions in Canada,” which was published in the physical edition of The Black Star News on 27 November 2009.