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Among those indicted were the ring's alleged bosses, Robert Meinster, 37, and Robert Platshorn, 36, both natives of Philadelphia. They own Miami's South Florida Auto Auction, a used-car firm that the Government calls "a business front" set up to launder the drug earnings. With a membership of 50 or so, Black Tuna was described by one Drug Enforcement Administration official as consisting of "a very sophisticated and educated group of professional people." Drugs were ferried, for example, by a couple of former commercial airline pilots who are believed to have known the gaps...
After the money started rolling in, Meinster and Platshorn moved into a suite in a posh Miami Beach hotel, and began accumulating boats, cars and houses and bought some prime Palm Springs real estate. In September 1977, according to the indictment, they deposited $1 million in cash in a Miami Beach bank...
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