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By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
October 03, 2005

Second Circuit Upholds Money Laundering Conviction

In United States v. MacPherson, No. 04-4825 CR, 2005 WL 2212043 (2d Cir. Sept. 13, 2005), the court reversed the trial court's decision to set aside the jury verdict of guilty and enter a judgment of acquittal in a money-laundering case. At trial, the government presented evidence that the defendant made 32 cash deposits at three banks all under $10,000 and it argued that the transactions supported the inference that the defendant willfully structured currency transactions to avoid currency reporting requirements under the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act.

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