24 people charged in money laundering scheme involving Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, prosecutors say

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This undated photo provided by the U.S. District Attorney shows confiscated drugs piled up in a truck bed. The Justice Department today announced a 10-count superseding indictment charging Los Angeles-based associates of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel with conspiring with money-laundering groups linked to Chinese underground banking to launder drug trafficking proceeds. (U.S. District Attorney via AP) LOS ANGELES – A five-year investigation by U.S. officials has uncovered a complex partnership between one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels and Chinese underground banking groups in the U.S. that laundered money from the sale of fentanyl, cocaine and other drugs, federal prosecutors...