 FACT: The $400 million in DEA money is said to have grown, "with  interest", to $9.5 billion in 15 years. That would represent a  compound interest rate of over 21% per year, which is unrealistic.  At 12%, the money would have grown to a little less than $2.4  billion. At a more realistic 6%, it would be about $981 million, or  a little over one