A crew of commercial airline flight attendants used their security clearance to smuggle $8 million in drug money through JFK International Aiport, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
The four accused mile-high smugglers cashed in on lighter security restrictions to funnel the ill-gotten cash through airport checkpoints at the Queens travel hub for years, according to a pair of federal indictments unsealed by the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York.
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