United States v. Bradley, No. 17-5725 (6th Cir. 2018)
Annotate this CaseFrom 2012-2015, Bradley and others drove patients to Detroit doctors, paid them for their prescription refills, and stored the pills in various places, including a house Bradley owned. Bradley recruited O’Neal to live in the stash house and accept pill deliveries. She received deliveries of 300 pills (usually oxycodone) every day. Other participants handled similar amounts. The group shipped pills to Buchanan in Nashville, who sold the pills to redistributors. Buchanan deposited the payments into bank accounts that belonged to Bradley, Bradley’s wife, and Jones. An indictment charged 18 individuals with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute oxycodone and oxymorphone, 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1), 846. Count 2 charged Bradley, Buchanan, and two others with conspiring to launder the operation’s proceeds, 18 U.S.C. 1956(a)(1)(A)(i)(h). Bradley pleaded guilty. The court ordered Bradley to forfeit currency and real property that he used in the conspiracy and at least a million dollars in cash, 21 U.S.C. 853(d), reasoning that the gross proceeds of the drug-distribution and money-laundering schemes reached a million dollars. The order applied the million-dollar judgment jointly and severally to Bradley and his co-defendants. The court sentenced Bradley to 17 years. The Sixth Circuit upheld the reasonableness of his sentence and found no plain error in the drug-quantity determinations but concluded that precedent forbids the joint-and-several nature of the forfeiture order.
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