A former TD Bank assistant branch manager in New York was instrumental in helping a $653 million drug money laundering operation, known as “David’s Network,” wash dirty money through the bank, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday.

The guilty plea of Wilfredo Aquino is the latest stone unturned in the massive “David’s Network” scandal, in which numerous TD Bank insiders in New York, New Jersey and elsewhere, aided money launderer Da Ying Sze, of New York, also known as David, in his criminal network, in exchange for bribes, the DOJ said.

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