E-Gold was a company that would warehouse gold for people and allow them to transfer their gold to other e-gold customers. It was indicted in 2007 on federal charges of money laundering. Federal reserve notes are money. Gold is not money. How could they be charged with money laundering when gold is not money?
Millions in assets linked to stolen Venezuelan oil funds laundered in South Florida frozen by the feds... Feds freeze millions in assets linked to stolen Venezuelan oil funds laundered in South Florida August 22, 2018 - Federal prosecutors have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in South Florida luxury real estate and other assets linked to a network of Venezuelan business people and former government officials charged with laundering more than $1 billion that U.S. authorities say was stolen from the country’s vast oil income.
Have you read the charges against them? Maybe the money laundering had nothing to do with gold. It was a registered business. Maybe the mob was using them for a front.