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category: PROMIS Scandal
summary: Reporter for the San Francisco Daily Journal who unsealed the John Di Giorgio
  file revealing laundered drug funds.
tags:
- Person
- PROMIS
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[Pam MacLean](/people/pam-maclean/) was a reporter for the *San Francisco Daily Journal*. She spent thousands of dollars to get the [John Di Giorgio](/people/john-di-giorgio/) file unsealed. The unsealed documents revealed that the [U.S. government](/places/united-states/) was looking for an alleged $13 million in laundered drug funds believed to be in [Switzerland](/places/switzerland/), [Germany](/places/germany/), and [Israel](/places/israel/).[^1]

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[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.