epublican Party leader Lawrence Novak launders $107,000 in illegal drug money

The Enterprise at SouthofBoston.com: "Feds: Novak laundered drug cash
By Maureen Boyle, Enterprise staff writer

BROCKTON — Local attorney and Republican Party leader Lawrence Novak was caught in taped conversations mapping out plans with a jailed drug suspect to launder $107,000 in illegal drug profits, federal officials allege.

'You need to clean the money,' Novak told the suspect, also a federal informant, according to papers filed in federal court Tuesday.

Novak, 54, state vice chairman of the Republican Party and a councilor-at-large candidate in Tuesday's city primary, was arrested and charged with federal money laundering offenses Tuesday, minutes after depositing drug money at a Brockton bank, authorities said."