Police Seize Documents in Probe of ZZZZ Best’s Barry Minkow
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Los Angeles police served search warrants at 22 banks and three residences Wednesday, seizing documents in their investigation of Barry Minkow, founder of the ZZZZ Best carpet cleaning company.
Minkow, the 21-year-old entrepreneur who as a teen-ager founded ZZZZ Best in his parents’ garage, was linked in July by Police Chief Daryl Gates to a nationwide narcotics money-laundering operation with ties to organized crime.
Lt. Dan Cooke, Police Department spokesman, said detectives from the Organized Crime Intelligence Division began serving the search warrants at the 25 locations at 7 a.m.
Cooke said detectives confiscated “lots of bank records” as possible evidence.
Police encountered no problems in serving the search warrants and made no arrests, Cooke said.
Minkow has not been arrested in the investigation, and no formal charges have been filed against him.
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