Money Launderer: Colombia

Colombia: Astrid Hurtado is seeking $15 million in damages, according to Times Colonist. Her job was to impersonate a money launderer in Colombia and provide information to the U.S. In return, she received a percentage of money seized by the United States and WASHINGTON - A former confidential informant working for the United States in Colombia claims in a lawsuit that the U.S. government abandoned her when she got into legal trouble for her undercover operations, and she wound up spending three years in a Colombian jail. Hurtado, 52, first worked as an informant for the U.S. tax agency in 1997-1998, then for the "El Dorado Task Force," a premier U.S. government unit established by the then-U.S. Customs Service to investigate money laundering. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.