A group of all-cash car purchases made in Wyoming and Colorado several years ago led federal investigators to roughly a dozen Mexican fast food restaurants they suspect were used to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug profits through at least 15 accounts at U.S. banks. Prosecutors described the alleged scheme in court proceedings in Cheyenne, Wyoming after filing a 100-page forfeiture complaint in November. That document remains sealed though details have appeared in subsequent records, including an amended complaint filed last month after some of the suspects filed a motion to have the case dismissed and their accounts...
According to a Motion to Amend Complaint filed by the Wyoming Office of U.S. Attorney, three Wyoming restaurants falsified invoices and participated in a multistate drug money laundering scheme.
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