Ex-Legislator Guilty of Money Laundering Charges

A former Pennsylvania state representative and his wife and daughter were convicted yesterday of money laundering charges in U.S. District Court.

German Quiles, 68; his wife, Maria, 49; and his daughter Gloria, 26, were found guilty in a jury trial before Judge Jan Dubois. The Quileses, who owned and operated a money services business known as Aruba Auto Tag Service and Aruba Check Cashing on Fifth Street in North Philadelphia, were convicted of laundering about $176,000 through their business between September 2006 and January 2007.


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