Heroin ring laundered drug money through luxury cars and real estate

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Jimmie Goodgame lived in a $800,000 house, controlled bank accounts with more than $1.5 million in deposits and had title to dozens of luxury cars, federal prosecutors said, but he didn’t have the income to justify his lifestyle. Goodgame, 41, who lives in a gated community of Solon, was among eight people indicted Thursday by a federal …

Swiss open money-laundering Russian tax probe

Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into suspected money-laundering after a U.S. investor claimed that Russian tax officials used Swiss bank accounts to engage in fraud. The probe was launched March 7 after Switzerland’s Money Laundering Reporting Office received a complaint from a law firm on behalf of the London-based Hermitage Capital Management, the federal prosecutors’ office said Friday. …