The January 22 New York magazine, a local weekly, reports in "The Money Plane": Five nights a week, at least $100 million in crisp new $100 dollar bills is flown from JFK nonstop to Moscow, where it is used to finance the Russian mob's vast and growing international crime syndicate. State and federal officials believe it is part of a multi-billion-dollar money-laundering operation. The Republic National Bank and The United States Federal Reserve prefer not to think so. "That money is used to support organized crime; it's used to support black-market operations," says one federal official. "In my personal opinion, this is an abomination. Yet it appears that at least part of the federal government sees nothing wrong with it." FINCEN director Stanley Morris is more blunt: "Russia's banking system is a cesspool." FIN_sin