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A Newark man admitted that he laundered $23 million for a Dominican drug network while awaiting trial for doing it before.
Edwin Deleon-Batista, 37, told a federal judge in Newark that he collected huge amounts of cash from drug sales in New Jersey, New York, and Florida and converted them to cashier’s checks at local banks.
Deleon-Batista was free on bond for federal money laundering charges following his arrest in New York in April 2019, Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachel A. Honig said.
Soon after, he “began using a stolen identity and obtained a fraudulent Florida driver’s license to continue the money laundering scheme,” she said.