An STR reporting that the governor of a large state is laundering tens of thousands of dollars, even if a small amount for a drug operation or one of the typical reasons for doing so, must raise the eyebrow of anybody involved in corruption investigations.  Governors, no longer how wealthy they may be, do not routinely move that much money into odd banks accounts and one could reasonably expect to see that coming out of the accounts in the forms of payoffs for "dirty tricks" political stuff, etc.  Considering what else his administration was involved in, it would be absurd for the IRS or DOJ to ignore that information.  That apparently all it was was to cover up the use of call girls, certainly doesn't excuse it and for any responsible person to put that kind of cash in the "underground economy" especially nowadays is outrageous.

I understand the concerns about a DOJ that has been corrupted but there has been nothing to point to any US Attorney in the Southern District of New York going along with this stuff and in fact one of Mr. Garcia's relatively immediate predecessors, James Comey, is one of the heroes in the DOJ mess.