LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — A Mexican man has been sentenced in Kentucky for helping a cartel launder money.
The Department of Justice said Jose Manuel Martinez Gomez, a/k/a Meño, served as a “money broker” in an organization that aided the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) by collecting, laundering, and repatriating drug proceeds generated in the United States to the cartel in Mexico.
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According to a news release, Martinez personally arranged for the laundering of $5,462,289 that were proceeds of drug trafficking crimes.
Martinez reportedly used a network of co-conspirators to pick up drug money from all over the United States and then give instructions to convert the money into cryptocurrency…