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· 7/28/1992

United States v. Robert L. Johnson

Citations

  • 971 F.2d 562
  • 1992 U.S. App. LEXIS 17375
  • 1992 WL 177174

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that where the fraud consisted of inducing investor to wire funds to defendant’s account, that - 13 - transaction alone cannot also support money laundering charge
  • stating that Congress designed the money laundering statute to fill a lacuna “with respect to the post-crime hiding of ill-gotten gains”
  • noting that there is no requirement that government, “show that funds withdrawn from the defendant’s account could not possibly have come from any source other than the unlawful activity.”
  • stating that Congress designed _______ the money laundering statute to fill a lacuna \with respect to the post-crime hiding of ill-gotten gains\
  • noting that there is no requirement that government \show that funds withdrawn from the defendant's account could not possibly have come from any source other than the unlawful activity.\
  • noting that there is no requirement that government \show that funds withdrawn from the defendant's account could not possibly have come from any source other than the unlawful activity.\

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Judges: Seymour, Brorby, Brown

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