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Article: Israeli mobster gets 19 years for money laundering
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- Jerusalem Post
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- June 20, 1999
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Jerusalem Post
06-20-1999
MIAMI - A former Israeli jet-setter convicted of conspiracy and money laundering for disguising $43 million in Colombian drug cash as profits from a family jewelry business was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison and fined $50,000.
Eli Tisona, 56, was found guilty June 2 of all 146 federal counts against him in one of the nation's biggest drug laundering trials. Charges against Tisona included filing false bank statements and making illegal overseas wire transfers.
Tisona, who owned a fish farm in the Colombian drug capital of Cali, was considered one of Israel's 11 biggest mobsters.
In Tisona's trial last year, one Cali cartel informant testified ...