United States v. Raymond Torres, Joseph S. Aflleje, and Barbara Aflleje-Torres

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “[a]n appellate court may not decide the credibility of witnesses as that is the exclusive task of the fact trier”
• finding that, “[t]o constitute clear error, we must be convinced that the sentencing court’s finding is simply not plausible or permissible in light of the entire record on appeal”
• stating that, “[t]o constitute clear error, we must be convinced that the sentencing court’s finding is simply not plausible or permissible in light of the entire record on appeal”
• finding insufficient evidence of intent with respect to financial transaction of purchasing a car with proceeds from a drug distribution scheme when there was no proof linking the purchase to the drug scheme
• finding sufficient evidence of promotional money laundering as to defendant who obtained drugs from suppliers, sold the drugs to others for eventual re-sale to customers, received payment, and “would use the proceeds . . . to buy more [drugs] that would later be resold”
• “The touchstone ... is whether the quantities were reasonably foreseeable to the coconspirators in light of the nature, extent, and purpose of the conspiracy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).