At least one restaurant in Boston’s Chinatown had a secret scandalous menu, according to a recent federal indictment — a multistate money laundering operation.
A federal grand jury in Boston has indicted eight alleged members of a conspiracy that the feds — investigating it as Operation Good Luck — said they diverted tens of millions of dollars in drug money and more in a gift card fraud scheme.
“Drug trafficking and money laundering go hand in hand,” said Joseph Bonavolonta, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston office, who accuses the crew of using their family-owned restaurant in Chinatown as a front for an elaborate international forum. A money laundering and money transfer scheme through which they conducted tens of millions of dollars in off-the-books transactions to circumvent the laws of our country, and to hide the source of their income.”
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