Officer Is Charged With Laundering Drug Profits
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A police officer has been indicted by a Federal grand jury on charges that he and other conspirators helped a Queens travel agency to launder $10 million in drug profits, officials said yesterday. The officer, Jacob Duran of Queens, was indicted Wednesday in White Plains on 15 counts of violating Federal money-laundering laws, said the office of Mary Jo White, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Prosecutors alleged that Officer Duran and six others covered up profits from the Cali drug cartel by drawing thousands of money orders in amounts too small to be reported to Federal banking regulators. One of several businesses used for money laundering, prosecutors say, was Tropical Travel, a travel agency at 133-16 Jamaica Avenue in Queens. Mr. Duran is accused of personally delivering currency for money laundering and signing invoices with false names. More : query.nytimes.com |