money laundering

A Soviet-born convicted felon who worked on real estate deals with President Donald Trump was accused in a lawsuit Monday of plotting to use Trump-branded skyscrapers to launder money allegedly stolen from a Kazakhstan bank.

A Cazenovia man has been sentenced to 5 years in prison on charges of fraud and money laundering. In addition to prison time 71-year-old James P. Griffin was ordered to pay a $2,300 special assessment, and over $2 million in restitution to his victims.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A New York City resident has pleaded guilty to being part of a drug and money laundering conspiracy while attending college upstate.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ray Nagin entered New Orleans City Hall as a cool, confidant self-styled reformer in 2002. He won national notoriety as a passionate, if profane, critic of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He exited in 2010 under suspicion.

UPDATE: 07/09/2014 11:27am Nagin has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison.