1.   Although the indictment suggests that this money was part of a drug transaction, it does not explicitly state that.

2.   Before issuing the order of forfeiture, the trial judge listened to four days of testimony, in which government witnesses detailed numerous drug transactions with Libretti.

3.   According to the indictment, the defendants set aside part of the proceeds for drug transactions and investments designed to launder the stolen money or return a profit.

4.   After placing them in custody, the detectives, clad in jeans and leatherlike jackets, returned to the street and were on the lookout for drug transactions.

5.   But the DEA seized that money, too, saying it could be traced to drug transactions.

6.   Drug dealers program new serial numbers between drug transactions, making wiretaps almost impossible.

7.   He said the Mexican bankers were all informed by the undercover agents that the money came from drug transactions in meetings that were secretly recorded on videotape.

8.   Investigators said one of the men, apparently angered over a drug transaction, shot the other.

9.   Often within minutes, she has laid out records of illegal drug transactions, infidelity, fraud or pornography.

10.   Police said a third person may have been involved in the drug transaction, but not in the shooting.