United States v. Huff, No. 10-4079 (10th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseDefendant-Appellant Huff appealed his convictions on money laundering charges, challenging the lower court's finding that the deposit of checks obtained through wire fraud constitutes money laundering. Defendant received two checks representing proceeds of wire fraud and deposited them into his bank account. Defendant alleged that the deposits alone could not be money laundering because he could not launder proceeds he did not yet possess (that is, until the checks cleared). The Court upheld the lower court's decision, finding nothing in federal law that requires the proceeds be in the form of cash or that checks be in the account before being considered "proceeds."
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