Former DEA Agent, Wife Plead Guilty to $9 Million Drug Money Diversion Scheme

A money laundering exhibit is displayed at Target America: Drug Traffickers, Terrorists and You, a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) traveling museum exhibit, in a file photo. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agent and his wife pleaded guilty on Monday to being part of a scheme that diverted over $9 million in proceeds from undercover money laundering investigations.

The money was sent to bank accounts that Jose Ismael Irizarry, 46, and his wife, Nathalia Gomez-Irizarry, 36, controlled, along with co-conspirators.