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SoFlo: SAY JUMP (3#) -

A big problem in South Florida: phony cops.

Impersonating a police officer is supposed to be a crime.

*Every couple of months, a criminal tries to pass himself off as a cop in Broward County, said Jim Leljedal, a spokesman for the Broward Sheriff's Office.*

+ I've had an encounter
with a phony cop down here myself.

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# Money Washing Machine: The FBI has uncovered another scheme involving the movement and laundering of drug profits...

"They want to get the money out of the country and inject that cash into more welcoming institutions. Then they bring it back by wire and put it into investments, into real estate, even into insurance.''

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# The Miami Herald ombudsman expresses some ex-post facto second thoughts about the newspaper appearing to promote the purchase of designer knock-offs.

Get out your Little Orphan Annie Decoder Ring...
now... what did he say???

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