United States v. Beltramea, No. 16-1403 (8th Cir. 2017)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pled guilty to eight counts of a sixteen count indictment that included wire fraud, money laundering, and tax evasion. Defendant appealed his sentence of 111 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release. The court affirmed the sentence but remanded the forfeiture order for further proceedings. The district court, upon rehearing, ordered forfeiture of the entirety of defendant's Castlerock property under 18 U.S.C. 982(a)(1). The court held that the evidence satisfied the requisite nexus between defendant's money-laundering convictions and the entirety of the property at issue. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
Court Description: Beam, Author, with Loken and Benton, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Forfeiture. For the court's earlier opinion in the matter affirming defendant's sentence but remanding the matter for further proceedings regarding forfeiture, see U.S. v. Beltramea, 785 F.3d 287 (8th Cir. 2015). on remand, the evidence satisfied the requisite nexus between defendant's money-laundering convictions and the real property involved in the forfeiture proceedings, and the order forfeiting the entirety of a land development project is affirmed.
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