Miscellaneous
Information
The
respondent was indicted by the U.S. District Court of the Eastern
District of New York for conspiring with nine codefendants to import
into the U.S. a quantity of heroin hydrochloride, in excess of 100
grams; utilizing a money laundering device in which small denominations
of U.S. currency were converted into larger denominations at various
casinos in Atlantic City; defrauding the U.S. Treasury Department
and its agencies by impairing, obstructing and defeating the lawful
governmental functions of collecting data and reports of currency
transactions for use in criminal, tax, and regulatory investigations
and proceedings; and failing to file reports of international transportation
of currency. The disposition is still pending concerning the respondent.
A complaint was filed against respondent on 3/7/85 alleging that
he and others had laundered cash at various casinos in 1982 in excess
of $2,000,000. |
