Obama’s administration asked for US$ 2 billion more for the Justice Department, bringing the total request to US$36.5 billion.
Officials from the Departments of the Treasury and Justice testified last week that organized crime groups have been ever more successful at exploiting legal loopholes to launder money from drug and weapons trafficking to the tune of billions of dollars. Jennifer Shasky, head of the Justice Department’s Money Laundering unit, said drug traffickers alone launder an estimated US$85 billion.
