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First National was snared by a federal strike force that has been on the lookout for money laundering in New England, where some of the estimated $100 billion-a-year business has moved because of increasing federal scrutiny of banks in South Florida. An affidavit filed by an FBI agent in 1983 said that the Angiulo family, a reputed organized-crime group, had bought more than $1.7 million in cashier's checks from a First National branch in Boston's North End. Payment for the checks included $250,000 in cash. According to the Boston Globe, the branch gave cash...
During a confrontation with FBI agents the day after Thanksgiving, according to the FBI affidavit, Koecher "voluntarily made and signed a written statement" admitting the theft and cigarette-pack transaction. Officials would not explain why he had confessed or why he was allowed to roam free for the five days before his arrest...
...fighting a six-month contempt sentence and $1,000 fine for refusing to testify about what the wife of a convicted child killer told him while he counseled both during the murder trial. But Crumbaugh "got weak for a moment," as he put it, and has already signed an affidavit detailing what the wife said, thus undermining his privilege claim. Nonetheless, the National Coalition for Religious Freedom is offering him legal help because of its belief in the primacy of the privilege. Whatever the courts may decide in Crumbaugh's case and, more important, Mellish's, virtually...
...before, an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration had filed an affidavit in a U.S. district court in Miami charging that the Sandinistas had encouraged South American drug dealers to use a 6,000-ft. airstrip, a hangar and a cocaine-processing laboratory in Nicaragua to foster the shipment of drugs...
...senior Administration official claims that the affidavit represents "only one case" in a pattern of high-level Nicaraguan involvement in the cocaine trade going back more than a year. The U.S., he says, has substantial although still only circumstantial evidence linking two Sandinista Cabinet ministers to the drug traffic. But so far none of the evidence, which the U.S. says includes tape-recorded conversations and ground and satellite photographs, has been released...