"A cloud has been hanging over my head since my younger son’s birth."
Miami’s sensational “dirty gold” probe has ended with a whimper.
The last defendant charged in a nearly $4 billion gold-smuggling case linking Miami to Latin America was handed a probationary sentence on Tuesday.
It was remarkably light punishment for Jesus Gabriel Rodriguez Jr., given that he was facing up to 20 years in prison when he was initially charged with a supporting role in the massive money-laundering conspiracy case upon his arrest.
It brought some relief to Rodriguez, the former owner of armored truck company Transvalue Inc., which hauled multiple gold shipments from Miami International Airport to a major precious-metals importer in Doral that was at the center of the five-year-old criminal case.
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