The Next Miami Operation WireWire Case: Alfredo Veloso

In June of 2018, we blogged about a series of cases that the Department of Justice announced as "Operation: WireWire." In particular, we wrote three pieces about the "South Florida Cases" where a Lebanese recruiter convinced people to set up shell companies, open bank accounts, and receive large wire transfers that were quickly sent overseas.  (See Operation WireWire: The South Florida Cases -- Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.)

Some of the earlier cases included US v. Eliot Pereira et al; US v. Gustavo Gomez et al; and US v. Cynthia Rodriguez et al.  So far, at least 250 shell corporations in South Florida have been identified that can all be linked back to the Roda Taher Money Laundering Network.  Those recruited communicated with Roda Taher, who was known as Rezi or Ressi, via WhatsApp and Email, including the gmail account "rezimarket@gmail.com." 

On April 30, 2019, DOJ announced another related guilty plea.  This time three more related cases are linked under the name "USA v. Lugo et al."

Alvaro Lugo of Sunrise, Florida, Karina Rosada of Hollywood, Florida, and Alfredo Veloso are the main trio of defendants in these cases, with Veloso pleading guilty on April 30, 2019. 

Karina Rosado

Karina Rosado ran her shell company as "Karina Luxury Trade" through her address 4001 West Flagler Street, Apr 18, Coral Gables, Florida.  Karina received both her papers of encorporation and her IRS EIN number via email from Rezi in June and July of 2017.  On August 7, 2017, Karina opened a Bank of America account ending in 8775 with a $25 deposit.  On August 18th, she received a $105,000 wire from a Business Email Compromise victim scammed by impersonating a title company person.  On August 21st, Karina withdrew $7,500 in cash, and wired $44,700 to "Tianjin Shengfa Candle Co" at China Zheshang Bank and an additional $39,988 to "Jiangxi Textile Group Imp" at Bank of China on 21AUG2017.  She drained the rest of the account, $8,800, the following day.

On August 2, 2017, Karina opened a TD Bank account ending in 2712. 

She also opened a Wells Fargo account ending in 5271 the same day.  On September 20, 2017, she received a $32,900 wire from a second victim, and on September 21, 217, an additional $59,890 was attempted from a third victim, but was blocked by the victim's bank, who filed an IC3.gov complaint on October 8, 2017.  A fourth victim wired $17,609 to her Wells Fargo account on November 2, 2017.  She withdrew another $10,000 on November 6, 2017, and $17,690 on November 9, 2017, closing the account.

On November 13, 2017, Karina opened a JP Morgan Chase account ending in 3657, providing her business name and her true social security number.  She deposited $17,609 dollars to open the account, listing in the memo, her Wells Fargo bank account number "2846705271."

After an arrest warrant was sworn out on August 20, 2018, Karina surrended on August 27th.  She posted bail on September 10, 2018, and was declared a fugitive after failing to appear on December 20, 2018.  Like several of the previous WireWire mules, Karina attended Miami Dade College in Hialeah, Florida.

Alvaro Lugo

Alvaro Lugo opened a Florida shell company "Lugo Wide Trades" from his address at 11149 NW 80th Lane, Doral, Florida.  The address he used matches his home residence address according to Florida's Driver and Vehicle Information Database.  When the company filed for its EIN number with the IRS, the IP address used to do so was in Beirut, Lebanon, and matched the IP address used to request EIN numbers for several other shell companies that were part of this network.  (Roda Taher is from Lebanon.)

Lugo opened a Bank of America account ending in 4361, using his social security number and drivers license to do so.  On October 30, he received a wire from "a motorsports dealership" in the amount of $105,532.09.  On October 31, he received an additional $74,857.69 from another victim company.  Both of these companies filed complaints at IC3.gov.  On November 3, Lugo cashed out the account with a $180,486.36 cashier's check payable to Lugo Wide Trades, Inc.

On October 26, 2017, Lugo opened a JPMC account ending in 1705.  The account was opened with $50.  On November 2, 2017, Lugo's account wrote a $50 check paid to Rosado's account.

Lugo was sentenced on April 8, 2019 to 34 months in prison.

Alfredo Veloso

Veloso's company was Veloso Bulk Trading which was registered to the address 6611 SW 99th Avenue, Miami, Florida.  In addition to Veloso Bulk Trading, Alfredo ran several other businesses from this address, including Tri Reptiles, a reptile importing company.  He also ran a "kink pornography" business from the same address, "Alex Ace 305 Productions Inc" which used the main website "kink305[.]com".  "Alex" is part of a group of 76 porn-related domain names and at least eight of the mules he recruited were women he ment through his internet video business, who were also used to open shell companies and associated bank accounts for the network. 

Veloso Bulk Trade received incoming wires totaling more than $1,000,000 from four victims - two corporations, a law firm, and an individual.  Veloso withdrew $26,686 of the funds.

In Veloso's Plea Agreement, signed on April 29, 2019, he agrees to plead guilty to counts 1 and 4 through 8.  To wit: 

1. Conspiracy to commit money laundering in violation of Title 18, USC section 1956(h) because he "did willfully with the intent to further the objects of the conspiracy, and knowingly combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with Alvaro Lugo, Karina Rosado, and others known and unknown, to knowingly conduct and attempt to conduct a financial transaction affecting interstate commerce, which transaction involved the proceeds of specified unlawful activity, knowing the property involved in the financial transaction represented the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, knowing that such transaction was designed, in whole and in part, to conceal and disguise the nature, the location, the source, the ownership, and the control of the proceeds of specified unlawful activity, in violation of Title 18 USC Section 1956(a)(1)(B)(i) and all in violation of Title 18 USC Section 1956(h).  The specified unlawful activities were conspiracy to commit wire fraud, (Title 18 USC Section 1349) and Wire Fraud (Title 18 USC Section 1343).

Counts 4 through 8 are actually all Lacey Act offenses, related to smuggling reptiles through his "Tri Reptiles" company.

His Base Offense Level was an 8.  It goes up by 16 due to the volume of funds laundered (between $1.5 Million and $3.5 Million). +2 more for sophistication, and +2 more for being a section 1956 conviction, and +3 more because he was a "manager or supervisor, but not an organizer or leader, of criminal activity involving five or more participants."  That would give a 29, but he got a three level decrease for "demonstrating acceptance of responsibility."   He's likely looking at 63 to 78 months in prison.  The prosecution agreed to run the animal smuggling sentence, if any, concurrently.

(Veloso DID HAVE a reptile importing license from 2010 to 2014, as "Xtreme Reptiles", but he failed to renew his license and paid no taxes on his current reptile business.)  Veloso was "shipping large quantities of reptiles on a weekly basis." He made about $150,000 per year on his illegal reptile business, selling reptiles "in bulk" to pet stores around the country.  

Operation Wire Wire: the South Florida Cases Part 3

In the main DOJ Operation Wire Wire press release, the South Florida cases are described like this:

• Following an investigation by the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service, 23 individuals were charged in the Southern District of Florida with laundering at least $10 million from proceeds of BEC scams, including eight people charged in an indictment unsealed last week in Miami. These eight defendants are alleged to have conspired to launder proceeds from numerous BEC scams, totaling at least approximately $5 million, including approximately $1.4 million from a victim corporation in Seattle, as well as various title companies and a law firm.

In Part 1 we reviewed 17-CR-20748, the case against Destiny Asjee Rowland, Lourdes Washington, and Cynthia Rodriguez.  (See Operation Wire Wire: The South Florida Cases, Part 1 )

In Part 2 we reviewed 18-CR-20170, the case against Eliot Pereira, Natalie Armona, Melissa Rios, Bryant Ortega, Angelo Santa Cruz, Alexis Fernandez Cruz, Roberto Carlos Gracia, Jose E. Rivera, Angeles De Jesus Angulo, Jennifer Ruiz, Yirielkys Pacheco Fernandez, and Sebastian Loayz.  (See Operation Wire Wire: The South Florida Cases, Part 2 ) 

Part 3 in our blog series focuses on those "eight people charged in an indictment unsealed last week in Miami", which refers to case 18-CR-20415, the case against Gustavo Gomez, Selene Joya, Jaremy Lucia Mena, Jose Brito Garcia, Jessica Hyde, Hillary Lee Williams, Juan Frias, and Ariel Champaign Edwards.

What links all of these cases together is that in each case, the ring leaders were recruited into their scam by the same individual: Roda Taher, who will be the focus of our next blog post "Operation Wire Wire: Who is Roda Taher?" 

The indictment begins with the statement:

"Roda Taher, aka Ressi, aka Rezi, hereinafter Taher, was the manager and supervisor of a criminal organization that engaged in money laundering by utilizing money mules and recruiters in the Southern District of Floirda, in other place in the United States, and in foreign commerce."

It then introduces our cast of characters.  As in South Florida case 1 and case 2, each of the players is recruited and instructed to set up a shell company, incorporating it in Florida, and establishing corresponding bank accounts with which to receive the proceeds of various Business Email Compromise and Spear Phishing attacks which fool company employees into wiring funds or transferring them via ACH, into the shell company accounts.

Defendant #1: Gustavo Gomez, b.1985, incorporated AG Universal Links in Hollywood, Florida.

Defendant #2: Selene Joya, b. 1990, incorporated Joya Star Life, Inc. in Miami Gardens, Florida.

Defendant #3: Jaremy Lucia Mena, b. 1992, incorporated Jaremy International, Inc. in North Miami, Florida.

Defendant #4: Jose Brito Garcia, b. 1981, incorporated Brito Commercial Products, Inc. in Hollywood, Florida.

Defendant #5: Jessica "Chuchi" Hyde, b.1987, incorporated Hyde Quality Inc. in Cutler Bay, Florida.

Defendant #6: Hillary Lee Williams, b. 1992, incorporated H Lee W Trade Group Inc. in Miami, Florida.

Defendant #7: Juan Frias, b. 1985, incorporated Ocean Surplus, Inc. in Miami, Florida.

Defendant #8: Ariel Champaign Edwards, b. 1991, incorporated Ariel Prime Trades Inc. in Miami, Florida.

Gustao Gomez worked closely with Roda Taher and other recruiters to recruit money mules and coach them in the manner in which they should set up their bank accounts.  According to the indictment:

"The recruiters would instruct money mules to open bank accounts in the name of their shell companies at various banks in the Southern District of Florida and elsewhere, and to falsely tell bank representatives that their shell company was a legitimate business engaged in the sale, import, or export of goods.  Taher and his recruiters gave different money mules a variety of false and fraudulent explanations regarding the nature of their businesses, including the sale, export, or import of textiles, furniture, electronics, or other goods.  However, the shell companies would not conduct any legitimate business."

"Once a money mule had opened a shell bank account in his or her shell company's name, those accounts would receive wire transfers of the proceeds of various fraudulent schemes.  The fraudulent schemes included, primarily, but were not limited to, email hacking or spoofing, also known as business email compromise and spearphishing scams.  Co-conspirators would hack into a victim's email account or otherwise take over that account without permission.  In a variation of this scheme, co-conspirators would "spoof" or create a fraudulent email account that was made to look like a victim's real email account.  The co-conspirators would then send email messages via the hacked or spoofed email accounts to individuals or corporations, instructing them to wire large sums of money to the money mules' shell bank accounts."

Roda Taher and the other recruiters would notify the mules when funds would be arriving into their accounts. These communications were primarily via the mobile phone encrypted messaging service WhatsApp.  They would be given instructions on what amounts would be received, where to wire the funds, and what commissions they were allowed to withdraw.  The commissions would be split with their recruiter, while the wires often sent the bulk of the money to China, Poland, and other destinations.

When banks closed the accounts, Taher would instruct the mules to open additional accounts at other banks.  Top performing mules were invited to become recruiters by inviting others to join the scheme as mules.  Recruiters received a percentage of the proceeds from the work of each mule they recruited.

The transactions particularly mentioned in the indictment are listed here. 

Count	Date	Defendant	Transaction
2	02JUL2014	Gustavo Gomez	$48,500 from AG Universal Links' Wells Fargo Bank account to Sonish Enterprises FZE in Dubai, UAE
3	18JUL2014	Gustavo Gomez	$192,000 from AG Universal Links' Wells Fargo Bank account to Sonish Enterprises FZE in Dubai, UAE
4	19JUL2014	Gustavo Gomez	$4,500 from AG Universal Links' Wells Fargo Bank account to Zion Luxury Car Rental Inc.
5	01AUG2016	Selene Joya	$8,600 from Joya Star Life Inc's Bank of America Account
6	01AUG2016	Selene Joya	$5,500 from Joya Star Life Inc's Bank of America Account
7	01AUG2016	Selene Joya	$4,000 from Joya Star Life Inc's Bank of America Account
8	26JAN2017	Jaremy Lucia Mena	$78,902 from Jaremy International Inc's TD Bank account to Bella Tyre Co Ltd in China
9	26JAN2017	Jaremy Lucia Mena	$9,400 from Jaremy International Inc's TD Bank account
10	13FEB2017	Jose Brito Garcia	$37,904 from Brito Commercial Products Inc's TD Bank account to Huge Elite Limited in Shanghai, China(*)
11	17MAY2017	Hillary Lee Williams	$79,980 from H Lee W Trade Group's SunTrust Bank account to Redington Gulf FZE in Dubai, UAE
12	06SEP2017	Juan Frias	$59,700 from Ocean Surplus Inc's TD Bank account to Zhejiang Oudi Machine Co. Ltd. in Zhejiang, China
13	02NOV2017	Ariel Champaign Edwards	$8,200 from Ariel Prime Trade Inc's Wells Fargo account
14	21NOV2017	Ariel Champaign Edwards	$700 from Ariel Prime Trade's Bank of America account

* - Worth noting that "Huge Elite Limited" in Shanghai, China was also the recipient of ill-gotten gains from Bryant Ortega in "Part 2."

This case is much "fresher" than some of the others.  The first arraignment in the case being Gustavo Gomez's appearance on May 31, 2018.  Gustavo just bonded out on June 11, 2018, for $50,000 posted by his girlfriend's brother.

Operation Wire Wire: the South Florida Cases Part 2

The Second South Florida case is linked to the first because this entire conspiracy also is part of the work of Roda Taher, AKA Ressi, AKA Rezi, the top recruiter in the first case.  However, in this 30 count indictment, the only one NOT named is Roda Taher.

Rezi recruited Eliot Pereira and Melissa Rios, below, who each in turn recruited others.

Defendant #1:  Eliot Pereira, b.1993 - opened "Eliot Products & Arts, Inc." and recruited and managed mules.
Defendant #2: Natalie Armona - opened "Armona Furniture Design Concept & Textile" and recruited and managed multiple mules and recruiters, including defendants #5, #8, #9, #10, and #12.
Defendant #3: Melissa Rios, b. 1996 - opened "Taihan Fiberoptics, Inc." and recruited #2
Defendant #4: Bryant Ortega, b. 1996 - opened "Bryant Tech Deals" and recruited and managed multiple mules, including Defendant #7. (4631 West 9th Court, Hialeah, FL 33012)
Defendant #5: Angelo Santa Cruz, b. 1994 - opened "ASC Worldwide, Inc" and recruited and managed multiple mules, including Defendants #6 & #11.
Defendant #6: Alexis Fernandez Cruz, b. 1992 - opened "Alexis Universal, Inc."
Defendant #7: Roberto Carlos Gracia, b. 1994 - opened RCG Deals, Inc.
Defendant #8: Jose E. Rivera, b. 1989 - opened Rivera Worldwide, Inc.
Defendant #9: Angeles De Jesus Angulo, b. 1996 - opened Angeles Premier Trades, Inc.
Defendant #10: Jennifer Ruiz, b. 1994 - opened Josette Quality, Inc.
Defendant #11: Yirielkys Pacheco Fernandez, b. 1984 - opened YF Nationwide, Inc.
Defendant #12: Sebastian Loayza, b. 1994 - opened Sure Trades, Inc.

This case starts off with a criminal complaint from the Miami office of the United States Secret Service.

It begins with his overview of the case, which is worth quoting here:

"Federal law enforcement agents have been investigating numerous business email compromise and spear phishing scams wherein various fraudsters targeted employees with access to company finances and tricked them into making wire transfers to bank accounts thought to belong to trusted partners -- except in fact, the accounts were shell companies controlled by the fraudsters.

Different people played different roles in the scheme.  Some of the co-conspirators hacked into and took control over certain victim companies' business email accounts without the knowledge or consent of the true email account holders, or created email accounts similar to, but slightly different from, real business email accounts.  Using the sham or compromised email accounts, the fraudsters then sent emails soliciting payments, claiming that funds were owed, and representing that payments for services rendered by the victim companies should be redirected to different accounts.

Other co-conspirators, known as money mules, opened shell companies and bank accounts into which the funds were fraudulently transferred, and then withdrew the fraud proceeds in cash, or wired the fraud proceeds into their foreign and domestic bank accounts.  Several money mules progressed to recruiting and managing other mules."

Natalie Armona may have been a good choice for Melissa to recruit based on her work.  Here's a Facebook post of hers from last year!  But by the dates, she had been in the money mule business quite a while before landing this job as a Junior Processor at a lending firm.

Armona's TD Bank account 

The complaint begins by telling the story of Natalie ARMONA, who opened a business, Armona Furniture Design Concept & Textile Inc., incorporating the business in Florida using her home address and opening a business checking account at TD Bank.  She was the sole signatory, and used her true social security number on the account.  The account was opened on December 9, 2106 and received its first wire December 14, 2016, from a scammed medical center (Victim Company A).  After taking out her commission in cash ($5,500) using her true Florida drivers license number as identity confirmation, Armona wired the rest of the money to "Flame Land International Limited" in Hong Kong.

On December 21, 2016, Armona's TD Bank account received an ACH for $724,395. Armona again paid herself first, withdrawing $10,508 in person.  Three wires went out.  $288,301 to "Caplan Sp Zoo" in Warszawa, Poland.  $194,110 to the same.  $94,218 to "Baolifeng Intl Trading Limited" in Shenzhen, China.  Armona paid herself twice more, once for $5,500 and once for $9400.  On December 27, 2016, she dipped three more times, for $800, $3800, and $9900.

Armona's SunTrust Bank account 

On December 9, 2016, Armona Furniture opened a SunTrust Bank account.  On December 30th she got an inbound ACH of $35,170 from a Pennsylvania sign company.  Also on December 30th, she got an incoming wire from Kukutula Development Company LLC in Koloa, Hawaii in the amount of $59,850.  On January 3, 2017, Armona withdrew $35,170.  On January 13, 2017, SunTrust closed the account for fraud with a balance of $59,850.

ASC WorldWide

A collaborating witness told the Miami Electronic Crimes Task Force that he had been recruited by Armona and had opened a shell company in the name ASC WorldWide, with accounts at TD Bank and Suntrust Bank.  Among other activities, he used email-based scams to cause $80,000 to be wired.

After a few successful jobs, the suspect said that Armona told him he could earn extra money by recruiting others into the scam.  He agreed to allow the USSS to record his emails, phone calls, and any text or WhatsApp communications involving others in the scheme.

The Ortega Case 

Although Bryant is not credited with recruiting Natalie Armona, the two are Facebook friends.  Bryant's profile also suggests that he may have had access to Personal Information, as an agent at a Health Insurance organization.  His cover photo indicates he's a fan of money!

The same USSS agent who did Armona's case also swore out the affidavit of criminal complaint against Bryant Ortega.  Ortega opened a TD Bank account for his new corporation, Bryant Tech Deals, which matched his home address of 2160 NW 111 Avenue, Sunrise, Florida 33322.  Bryant Tech Deals also opened a SunTrust account.  Both accounts were opened on February 13, 2017 and on March 6, 2017 the SunTrust account received an inbound wire of $283,750.50.  On March 7th, three withdrawals were made.  $500 from an ATM, $5600 over-the-counter, and $8400, also over-the-counter.  Ortega's true Florida drivers license was shown as proof of identify for the in-person withdrawals. Also on March 7, 2017, $94,110 was wired to "Huge Elite Limited" in Shanghai, China. After paying himself three more times the following day ($400 ATM, $800 at the counter, and $6200 at the counter), another wire of $128,705 went to Huge Elite Limited.  On March 9, 2017, an additional  $33,000 was wired out to "Lofty Ease Limited" in Shanghai, China.
(Ortega was arrested Jan 25, 2018)

The Pereira Case 

The third case, Feb 23, 2018, has an affidavit from Miami's FBI office from an agent who previously served as a Computer Scientist in the Philadelphia office! Pereira ran several schemes against companies by impersonating their officers, including Fakhoury Law Group (Troy, Michigan), High Tech Lending (San Diego, California), Gaumer Company (Houston, Texas), Park Corporation (Cleveland, Ohio), and Zija International (Lehi, Utah.)  Each of those companies received fraudulent emails, claiming to be from an executive of their own company, ordering that wires be sent to accounts controlled by "OS Fly Tech Incorporated."   Pereira hired an unnamed middle man to set up additional corporate accounts at Bank of America, Wells Fargo, SunTrust Bank, and Regions Bank.  The Middleman says that Pereira was working with an unknown male who he called "Rezi."  This would be the same person that Cynthia Rodriguez was working for (see Operation Wire Wire: The South Florida Cases, Part 1) Roda Taher.  Pereira and Rezi gave one of their mules an email os20technologies@gmail.com to use.

As shown above, nearly $1M in wires were sent to company accounts at Bank of America, SunTrust Bank,  TD Bank, and Wells Fargo Bank in September and October of 2016.  Pereira and his middleman communicated through WhatsApp and Email.  (954.554.5501 / bossmanweston@gmail.com / osflytechnologies@gmail.com )

The Big Picture 

Roda Taher, AKA Ressi, AKA Rezi, was the manager and supervisor of a criminal organization in the Southern District of Florida and elsewhere.  He recruited all of the defendants in this case, encouraged them to open shell accounts and receive illegally transferred funds, some of which they directly wired to China, Poland, and elsewhere.

The case involves 30 distinct financial transactions:

Count	Date	Defendant	Transaction
2	02SEP2016	Eliot Pereira	$89,630 from OS Fly Tech's Wells Fargo account to China
3	30NOV2016	Melissa Rios	$13,844 from Tiahan Fiberoptics Inc's TD Bank account to Huzhou Nanmei Textile
4	23DEC2016	Natalie Armona	$288,301 from Armona Furniture's TD Bank account to Caplan Sp Zoo in Warszawa Poland
4	23DEC2016	Natalie Armona	$194,110 from Armona Furniture's TD Bank account to Caplan Sp Zoo in Warszawa Poland
5	23DEC2016	Natalie Armona	$288,301 from Armona Furniture's TD Bank account to Caplan Sp Zoo in Warszawa Poland
6	23DEC2016	Natalie Armona	$94,218 from Armona Furniture's TD Bank account to Baolifeng Intl. Trading Limited in Shenzhen China
7	12JAN2017	Natalie Armona	$44,618 from Armona Furniture's TD Bank account to Hangzhou Jieenda Textile Co Ltd in China
8	07MAR2017	Bryant Ortega	$94,110 from Bryant Tech Deal's SunTrust account to Huge Elite Limited in Shanghai, China
9	08MAR2017	Bryant Ortega	$128,705 from Bryant Tech Deal's SunTrust account to Huge Elite Limited in Shanghai, China
10	08MAR2017	Bryant Ortega	$6,200 from Bryant Tech Deal's SunTrust account
11	28MAR2017	Bryant Ortega	$179,302 from Bryant Tech Deal's SunTrust account to Lofty Ease Limited in Shanghai, China
12	14APR2017	Roberto Carlos Garcia	$3,500 from RCG Deals Inc's Bank of America account
13	17APR2017	Roberto Carlos Garcia	$112,000 from RCG Deals Inc's Bank of America account to KT and G Corp
14	17APR2017	Roberto Carlos Garcia	$7,000 from RCG Deals Inc's Bank of America account
15	17APR2017	Roberto Carlos Garcia	$3,000 from RCG Deals Inc's Bank of America account
16	28APR2017	Jennifer Ruiz	$39,841 from Josette Quality Inc's TD Bank account to Huzhou Nanmei Textile Co. Ltd.
17	28APR2017	Jennifer Ruiz	$3,400 from Josette Quality Inc's TD Bank account
18	04MAY2017	Roberto Carlos Garcia	$100 from RCG Deals Inc's Bank of America account
19	26OCT2017	Angelo Santa Cruz	$88,950 from ASC Worldwide's Chase Bank account to Niche Holding Ltd.
20	26OCT2017	Angelo Santa Cruz	$7,000 from ASC Worldwide's Chase Bank account
21	01NOV2017	Alexis Fernandez Cruz	$8,600 from Alexis Universal Inc's TD Bank account
22	07NOV2017	Angelo Santa Cruz	$96,500 from ASC Worldwide's TD Bank account to Zhejiang Oudi Machine Co. Ltd.
23	07NOV2017	Angelo Santa Cruz	$8,500 from ASC Worldwide's TD Bank account
24	09NOV2017	Alexis Fernandez Cruz	$8,500 from Alexis Universal Inc's SunTrust Bank account
25	21NOV2017	Yirielkys Pacheco Fernandez	$34,810 from YF Nationwide Inc's Chase Bank account to Nantong Gomaa International Co. Ltd.
26	06DEC2017	Yirielkys Pacheco Fernandez	$88,528 from YF Nationwide Inc's Chase Bank account
27	30NOV2017	Jose E. Rivera	$54,210 from Rivera Worldwide Inc's Bank of America account to Zhejiang Senhuang Trading in Zhejiang, China
28	30NOV2017	Jose E. Rivera	$6,100 from Rivera Worldwide Inc's Bank of America account
29	03JAN2018	Angeles De Jesus Angulo	$79,400 from Angeles Premier Trades Inc's Wells Fargo Bank account to Farstar International Ltd
30	03JAN2018	Angeles De Jesus Angulo	$8,600 from Angeles Premier Trades Inc's Wells Fargo Bank account

Altogether, this group is charged with laundering more than $5,000,000.

The case is scheduled to be heard in Jury Trial beginning on June 25, 2018 before Judge Marcia G. Cooke in Miami, Florida.

Tomorrow (June 13, 2018) two of the defendants are meeting to change their plea.  Jennifer Ruiz and Yirielkys Pacheco Fernandez have decided they may not want the 20 year sentence that all of them are facing as part of a conspiracy to commit money laundering at this level!