The laundry man
By: Kenneth Rijock
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780241954171; 9780241954768; 9780141969435
Subjects: Criminals; Biography; Prevention; Money laundering
Description: Meet Ken Rijock. Decorated Vietnam veteran. High flying lawyer. And one of the world's biggest money launderers. In 1980s Miami, Ken Rijock was the middle man between the Colombians and the domestic cartels flooding America's streets with cocaine. Every Friday, carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars in a tattered suitcase, he would fly by private jet to a tax haven in the Caribbean. Rijock's operation was responsible for 'cleaning' over $200 million of dirty cash. And all the time he was in love with a cop. It finally came crashing down when a client testified against him. He agreed go undercover for the DEA, and he now works with banks and governments to track the new generation of money launderers. Like Frank Abagnale's "Catch Me If You Can" and Howard Marks' "Mr Nice", "The Laundry Man" is the remarkable story of an ordinary man caught up in an extraordinary life.
Table of contents: title: The crossroads; title: Outside the mainstream; title: First client; title: The six million dollar man; title: The mickey mouse account; title: The cheap thrill; title: being shot at and missed; title: Meeting the mob; title: The Sint Maarten run; title: Spinning the plates; title: Sympathy for the devil; title: Trouble in paradise?; title: Where did I put that fifty thousand dollars?; title: Your fee, senor Rijock; title: The elevator exit; title: When there's a target on your chest, keep moving; title: 'Move the boat and you're dead'; title: Breakthrough; title: The more things change, the more they stay the same; title: Where would you like your twelve million dollars?; title: Hellhounds on my trail; title: Call my lawer; title: The case for the prosecution; title: Trips you have to make alone; title: Withering on the vine; title: Payback; title: My life back; title: Changing sides; title: 'If anything goes wrong, kill him'.