The Lawyer Who Taught Police About Money Laundering, Then Ordered His Wife's Murder
He taught police officers how to catch money launderers. A federal jury concluded he was laundering drug money himself, and that when his wife threatened to expose him, he arranged her murder.
Fred Tokars was a respected Atlanta lawyer and former assistant district attorney. His wife, Sara, found documents about his offshore accounts and tax evasion, copied them, and left instructions to give them to the police if anything happened to her. In November of 1992, she was killed while driving home with their two young sons.
This episode traces the money-laundering network, the hired gunman, the…
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