Criminal
Apr. 15, 1999
Operation Casablanca Trial Opens in L.A.
After prosecutors told jurors Tuesday that defendants in Operation Casablanca willingly participated in a massive money-laundering scheme, several defense attorneys portrayed their clients as unknowing pawns in a sting engineered by a onetime drug trafficker and money-launderer turned government agent.
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