Word: laundering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adult-education courses, adult-exercise classes, a once-a-month Family Breakfast Club at which parents talk about children's books, a singing group and a "room moms" program that puts parents into the classroom to help teachers. Parents also pressed the principal for school uniforms--and now help launder them. Bowling Park's programs are funded through a combination of federal funds set aside for inner-city schools, parent fees, private grants and school-district money...
...ever married Joe. Calling on a technique that figured prominently in her campaign-finance course at Brigham Young University, Enid used $150,000 of her father's money by selling back to him a house he had given her. In '94 she needed millions, so Joe had to launder more of Daddy's money with a convoluted asset swap. The only difference is that those assets, Joe's family trusts, didn't exist. Enid admitted last week that she had lied about the transaction during the campaign, insisting that the windfall came from hard work and being otherwise "blessed...
...said a ranking U.S. policy hand. "He's been very helpful." Other U.S. agents, however, bolstered Medina's story when they found two Chase Manhattan Bank accounts in New York that appeared to be linked to Samper's inner circle. Medina says that a Chase account was used to launder the Cali funds...
...Mexico for decades, but the cartels' influence is spreading to the country's economy as well. Drug barons have built up a financial empire using the country's booming tourism industry as a kind of giant dry-cleaning service for narcotics profits. Traffickers and the politicians who protect them launder billions of dollars every year by investing vast sums in beach resorts, financial markets, shopping centers and other enterprises, such as Punta Diamante, a resort in the state of Guerrero that many investigators believe is financed with drug money. It is also widely assumed that drug traffickers who fiddled with...
...Sorbonne and converted to Judaism while living in Israel; she could seduce men in five languages. She was also the chief U.S. agent for Carlos Jader Alvarez, one of the godfathers of her country's drug trade. With careful stroking, Darias had persuaded Navarro to let his firm launder more than $1 million of Alvarez's cocaine profits when Operation Swordfish was abruptly halted, partly because a corrupt DEA agent had blown its cover...