The Region - News from June 6, 1985
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A Los Angeles federal judge imposed the stiffest sentence ever issued in a cocaine money-laundering case, Assistant U.S. Atty. Gordon A. Greenberg said. U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie sentenced Ruben Reinis, 41, a Colombian living in South Gate, to seven years in prison on charges of conspiring to conceal the true source of the money he laundered in more than 500 Los Angeles-area banks. Greenberg said that Reinis and six others conspired to launder more than $9 million during the last year. The other defendants in the case received sentences ranging from six months to two years.
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