n," involving a Sicilian-run heroin operation and a number of New York pizza parlors in the 1980's. The pizza parlors were used to distribute the heroin and move the cash to Swiss bank accounts; the U.S. government finally became suspicious when it noticed that a New York bakery was moving far more money than was normal for a bakery. A much more recent scheme apparently involves the fishing industry, which conducts most of it's business in cash. In this case the crime organization provides financial backing to a fish buyer in the form of bulk cash; never even banking this cash, the buyer buys fish from individual boats, whose owners immediately use the cash to pay their crews and maintain their boats. The buyer then sells the fish to a wholesaler and is paid in a non-reportable form (bank check, company check, credit, or letter of credit); thus a large amount of cash is converted into a non-reportable form with a legitimate source (the wholesaler).
Another recent development is the use of title companies: cash deposits are made to a title company, alle
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