 The delay is part of an agreement to close an estimated $46.8 billion budget deficit this year. Lawmakers will likely vote on the budget proposal next week. John Scott reporting. Well, a judge has acquitted 28 people accused of money laundering in an international case known as the Panama Papers. Among those acquitted, Juergen Mossack, the co-founder of a law firm that authorities say was at the center of a conspiracy to hide money