From: The Bronx Chronicle
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After a two-and-a-half-year multi-agency investigation, 19 men and one woman were charged following simultaneous arrests Tuesday and Wednesday of this week in New York, Virginia, Connecticut and New Jersey. The Bronx County grand jury indictments were unsealed today with the Supreme Court arraignment of several of the defendants in Part 60, before Justice Steven Barrett. The following defendants are named in one or more indictment:
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Some of the proceeds were also sent to a number of the defendants’ home countries in Africa and the Middle East.
