DAWN Satterswaite, the attorney who was this week arrested and charged with money laundering, is alleged to have facilitated the multimillion-dollar real estate transactions of convicted drug kingpin Andrew Hamilton, who is awaiting sentencing in the

United States.

The prosecution yesterday revealed in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court that, between 1998 and 2009, 30 high-end properties were bought for Hamilton by Satterswaite to the tune of $500 million.

The court was told that 55-year-old Satterswaite was also collecting rent and maintaining the properties.

Also yesterday, allegations were made against Satterswaite’s three co-accused — 53-year-old Paulette Higgins of Norman Gardens, Kingston 2; Janet Ramsay, 50, of Bridgeport, St Catherine; and Ann-Marie Cleary, 40, of Woodlawn, Manchester — that the properties were purchased in their names to conceal the true ownership.

The court was told that Cleary, who was not in court yesterday because of an illness that caused her to be hospitalised, is Hamilton’s spouse and that Higgins and Ramsay are his sisters.

The allegations were outlined moments before all four women were offered $10-million bail each following applications from Anthony Pearson, who is representing Satterswaite, and Queen’s Counsel Ian Wilkinson, who appears for the other three.

In offering the bail, Senior Magistrate Judith Pusey ordered that the women report to the Major Organised Anti-Corruption Task Force (MOCA) on Mondays. MOCA and the Financial Investigations Division of the Ministry of Finance had commenced the investigation against the women in December last year following a request from the Drug Enforcement Agency of the United States.

Yesterday, after RM Pusey offered the women bail with one surety and the condition that they surrender their travel documents, Wilkinson asked that the surety be increased to two, but Pusey didn’t budge.

“We are dealing with figures of between $300 million and $500 million,” Pusey said. The accused are to return to court on February 18, 2014.

The women were slapped with money-laundering charges on Thursday following their detention on Tuesday after a 16-hour operation spanning the parishes of Kingston, St Andrew, St Catherine, and Manchester.

Hamilton recently pleaded guilty in California to drug, money laundering and firearm-related charges and is to be sentenced next February.