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Newark Bizman: I Laundered $23M For Dominican Drug Network Newark Bizman: I Laundered $23M For Dominican Drug Network
Newark Bizman: I Laundered $23M For Dominican Drug Network A Newark man admitted that he laundered $23 million for a Dominican drug network while awaiting trial for doing it before. Edwin Deleon-Batista, 37, told a federal judge in Newark that he collected huge amounts of cash from drug sales in New Jersey, New York, and Florida and converted them to cashier’s checks at local banks. Deleon-Batista was free on bond for federal money laundering charges following his arrest in New York in April 2019, Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachel A. Honig said. Soon after, he “began using a stolen identity and obtained a fraudulent Florida driver’s licen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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ICYMI: Newark Man Laundered $23 Million In Drug Money, Authorities Say ICYMI: Newark Man Laundered $23 Million In Drug Money, Authorities Say
ICYMI: Newark Man Laundered $23 Million In Drug Money, Authorities Say Authorities say a Newark man arrested in April for money laundering in New York immediately went back to work, laundering millions more for drug trafficking organizations and collecting a cut of the cash he handled.  Edwin Deleon-Batista, 36, worked with others to convert cash from drug dealers into cashier's checks at local banks in states including New York and New Jersey, with the checks payable to people with ties to the drug dealing organizations, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. For a year beginning in March 2018, he obtained checks worth more than $13 million, earning a 1…

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by Paul Milo