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Federal investigators targeted nearly four times as many alleged money mules in 2020 than they did last year as part of the third round of a multi-agency operation to hamstring efforts by overseas fraudsters to launder funds stolen from Americans. Agents with the FBI, Secret Service, Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, and five other federal agencies over the past two months issued warnings or sought penalties against more than 2,300 individuals suspected of helping foreign-based fraud syndicates siphon money from U.S. victims, a Justice Department official told reporters Wednesday. The number of actions, which at various times involved all 50...