JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville man will spend more than four years in federal prison for laundering money.<\/p>\n
Mauricio Chahine, 53, was sentenced to four years and two months behind bars.<\/p>\n
Court records show undercover agents posed as drug traffickers and asked Chahine to move money. He quickly agreed, saying he didn\u2019t care where the cash came from.<\/p>\n
Chahine even bragged he\u2019d been laundering money since 1999, not just in the U.S., but also in countries like Brazil, Spain, and Colombia. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n He explained how he could split deposits, create fake invoices, and use his businesses to make the money look clean.<\/p>\n Over several months, he accepted more than $217,000 in real cash and another $50,000 in fake bills. <\/p>\n He spread the money across different accounts and then wired it back to the agents in smaller chunks.<\/p>\n Chahine was arrested in November 2024 and has been in custody ever since.<\/p>\n \u201cThis case shows how drug traffickers rely on people to hide their profits,\u201d Ronald Loecker, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation said.<\/p>\n The case was handled by the IRS, DEA, and Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville man will spend more than four years in federal prison for laundering money.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":213630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[38670,5229,12854,38545,72698,13257,9240,7026,7611,2625,29040,29664,281,18740,4219,8140,9322,283,23424,72699,3188,723,10767,454,40900,12651,15191,40901,7310,6616,24717,72700,1039,72701,8142,3228,12846,4630,2934,8143,27466,72702,72703,58380,40906,125,8662,72704,443,10074,12433,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,311,5953,72705],"class_list":["post-213629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-agreement","tag-america","tag-attorney","tag-auction","tag-auctioneer","tag-authority","tag-background","tag-black","tag-block","tag-brown","tag-chairman","tag-concept","tag-court","tag-courtroom","tag-crime","tag-criminal","tag-dark","tag-decision","tag-divorce","tag-equality","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-gavel","tag-government","tag-guilt","tag-guilty","tag-hammer","tag-innocence","tag-jacksonville","tag-judge","tag-judgment","tag-judicial","tag-judiciary","tag-juridical","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-lawyer","tag-legal","tag-legislation","tag-light","tag-litigation","tag-mallet","tag-object","tag-prosecution","tag-punishment","tag-rights","tag-sale","tag-symbol","tag-system","tag-table","tag-trial","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-verdict","tag-wood","tag-wooden"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}