All for One

The Coronado house was purchased in 1991 for $1.15 million.  NBC 7 San Diego

The case of Elba Esther Gordillo spotlights the ease with which money can be laundered through property investment in the United States. The longtime head of Mexico's National Union of Education Workers, now charged with the embezzlement of almost $160 million in union funds, was arrested in February and has been in jail since. Her six-bedroom home in Coronado Cays sits unoccupied, just one of several properties linked either directly or indirectly through family members to her.
   While Mexican authorities are preparing their case against Gordillo, the question that surfaces here, says attorney John Owens, formerly head of the criminal division at the U.S. attorney’s office in San Diego, is, “Did anyone in the United States help to facilitate these crimes? These types of crimes are not usually committed alone”: http://m.utsandiego.com/news/2013/mar/23/suspicious-home-purchase-went-unnoticed/