Livan Hernandez Has Some Shady Ties to a Puerto Rican Drug Trafficker, According to Court Documents

"Ayala-Vazquez had just purchased the cars, valued at more than $400,000, from Washington Nationals pitcher Livan Hernandez in Miami. Yet the cars, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Puerto Rico, remained in Mr. Hernandez’s name … Now the target of a federal money-laundering investigation, Mr. Hernandez is suspected of being a “straw buyer” for Ayala-Vazquez, according to a high-ranking law enforcement source. A straw buyer purchases items for others in their own name, allowing the proceeds from illegal activities such as drug trafficking to be hidden."

There’s an avalanche of information in the Times’ article that looks terrible for Hernandez, but he still refuses to talk about it (he’s only given one interview, and that was to Spanish-language “Mega TV,” and he offered a laughable denial – “When something bad happens, like now, there are no facts, only things that come from people talking, and now Livan is the problem,”). Hernandez, who is allegedly 36-years-old, has taken in about $50 million during his 14-year career.