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...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...
Brown, the former governor of California and chair of state's Democratic party, said "the function of [political] parties is to launder dirty money" that candidates would otherwise be unwilling to accept from the corporate sector...
...conviction, last week described the probe simply as "an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations relating to operations of the House post office and efforts to obstruct that investigation." TIME has learned, however, that investigators believe the stamp purchases make up only a small part of a larger scheme to launder campaign funds and convert them for personal use. Subpoenas issued in the case have made it clear that investigators are looking into whether lawmakers or their aides illegally channeled campaign contributions through the House post office...