United States v. Duperval, No. 12-13009 (11th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseDefendant, the Director of International Affairs at Telecommunications D'Haiti, appealed his conviction for two counts of conspiring to commit money laundering and 19 counts of concealment of money laundering, as well as his sentence. Defendant's convictions stemmed from his involvement in two schemes in which international companies gave him bribes in exchange for favors from Teleco. The court concluded that the district court did not abuse its discretion when it questioned jurors as a group about mid-trial publicity; there was sufficient evidence for the jury to find that Teleco was an instrumentality of the Government of Haiti; the district court did not abuse its discretion when it denied defendant's requested jury instruction on the exception for routine governmental action; the government did not interfere with defendant's right to call a witness; and defendant's sentence is not procedurally or substantively unreasonable. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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