LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – An associate of suspended Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez has been charged with money laundering by the same statewide prosecutors handling a case involving a multi-million-dollar illegal gambling operation.
Krishna Deokaran, 50, was booked into the Lake County jail on Oct. 6 and released the same day on a $20,000 bond, newly obtained court records show.
Deokaran has pleaded not guilty to money laundering, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison…