Professional baseball player Livan Hernandez may be involved in the Angel Ayala Vazquez drug kingpin bust. Hernandez is a pitcher for the Washington Nationals and a former player for the Florida Marlins.

He is now the target of a federal money laundering probe. Reports are that he had cars and real estate purchased under his name that actually belonged to the convicted drug trafficker Angel Ayala Vazquez (aka "El Buster" or "Angelo Millones"). Property includes a Lamborghini, a Porsche, a warehouse recording studio. Hernandez is suspected of being a "straw buyer", someone who purchases property in their name for someone else, presumably to hide the real source of the money used to pay for it (aka laundering).

Major League Baseball has apparently been cooperating with the DEA, and Jacqueline Novas, special counsel to the U.S. attorney in San Juan.

As shocking as discovering a pro baseball player's possible connections to a drug lord may be, reports indicating that recording artists Elvis Crespo, Daddy Yankee and Wisin y Yandel are also being investigated. The drug dealer, Vazquez, paid them to perform concerts in Puerto Rico.

Hernandez is not Puerto Rican. He defected from Cuba in 1995 and has had other run ins with the law before including charges for felony aggravated assault and simple battery (both of which eventually were dropped).

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