Using a complex, international money-transmission scheme and a takeout diner in Boston's Chinatown district as a front, a group of six suspects allegedly laundered millions of dollars of proceeds from marijuana sales from New York from January 2021 to June 2022. The suspects moved the cash in bulk from New York to the restaurant, China Gourmet, in minimum quantities, or "units," of $10,000 each during the period in question, including $250,000 found hidden in a cooler beside a block of frozen meat, an investigator with the Drug Enforcement Agency claimed in an affidavit attached to a federal indictment in Massachusetts....
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