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“Federal agents gather evidence from a business as they launched a series of raids in the downtown Los Angeles fashion district.” [Al Seib / Los Angeles Times]
“Los Angeles has become the epicenter of narco-dollar money laundering with couriers regularly bringing duffel bags and suitcases full of cash to many businesses,” Robert E. Dugdale, assistant U.S. attorney in charge of federal criminal prosecutions in Los Angeles, told the LA Times.
Federal agents recently conducted a massive sting that uncovered a drug cartel’s trail of blood money, which led to a maternity boutique in the discount fashion district in Downtown Los Angeles.