MIAMI MONEY LAUNDERER MOVING BULK CASH MURDERED AFTER AUTO CHASE; MONEY TAKEN, HER CORPSE WAS BURNED

For those who think that money laundering is a safe, white collar crime, think again, as laundrymen can end up as victims of violent crime, due to the dangers of bulk cash smuggling, which can make them a tempting target. If this individual pictured, Miguel Aguasvivas Lazardo, originally from the Dominican Republic, doesn't look like the typical professional who engages in money laundering, it's because he's a barber shop owner who ran a bulk cash smuggling operation, moving the proceeds of Colombian drug sales, south through Florida into Miami, where it was converted to cryptocurrency, for his Cartel clients.

He recently entered a plea in U.S. District Court to Money Laundering Conspiracy, but that's not why the case is noteworthy. His wife, who was driving her vehicle, bringing bulk drug cash south, was chased down, shot and killed, and her car set afire with her corpse inside. Being a money launderer has, as you can see, involves certain occupational risks, which may not be foreseeable to those who wish to engage in it, and which should be considered by those who think it is a relatively safe activity.

I am reminded of the time, stepping down after making a money laundering technique presentation at a Miami conference, when a DEA agent asked me if I had known a certain civil lawyer, recently deceased. I replied that we had, back in the early 1970s, worked at the same large downtown Miami law firm. Apparently, the agent said, he had not drowned in a boating accident, as the public had been lead to believe, but murdered by his client after a money laundering operation gone bad. I had no clue that he had ever been a laundryman. As you can see, this business has its share of danger. he was found, floating face down, in Biscayne Bay; think about that for a moment.

This was not the first time that someone in law enforcement has told me about how a money launderer met an early end, nor would it be the last time.