United States v. Edward R. Butler

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the prior testimony a debtor gave to meet the burden of production in a contempt proceeding in bankruptcy court was admissible against him in a later criminal proceeding, as not all forms of pressure constitute compulsion
• identifying the elements of the advice of counsel defense as “(a) full disclosure of all pertinent facts to [a lawyer], and (b) good faith reliance on the [lawyer]’s advice”
• funds became proceeds when given to third party to hold, and the subsequent transactions are money laundering
• “Put plainly, the laundering of funds cannot occur in the same transaction through'which those funds .first became tainted by crime.”
• “Put plainly, the laundering of funds cannot occur in the same transaction through which those funds first become tainted by crime.”
• “[T]he laundering of funds cannot occur in the same transaction through which those funds first become tainted by the crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).