November 14 2019
For three years, six Passaic County residents used more than 1,000 checks to launder more than $27 million in drug money paid to drug cartels in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, authorities said.
From July 2016 to January 2019, the six orchestrated a money-laundering scheme that used more than 1,000 cashier checks to scrub money they got from drug deals in New York and New Jersey, the statement said. The checks were then written out to people working on behalf of the cartels, with ties to the Dominican Republic, Colombia and elsewhere.
