United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of indictment against defendants, on charges of conducting an unlicensed money transmitting business, on the basis that allegations were insufficient in numerous respects, is reversed where 18 U.S.C. section 1960(b)(1)(B) sets forth a constitutionally valid general intent crime.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/25/2006
• Decided 08/21/2006
• Published 08/21/2006

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, GREGORY, Circuit Judge, and JOSEPH F. ANDERSON, JR., Chief United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  David Ira Salem, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellant/Cross-Appellee.  Dale Preston Kelberman, Miles & Stockbridge, P.C., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees/Cross-Appellants.   ON BRIEF:  Allen F. Loucks, United States Attorney, Chan Park, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellant/Cross-Appellee.  Todd M. Reinecker, Miles & Stock-Bridge, P.C., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant Fatameh Talebnejad;  Christopher B. Mead, London & Mead, Washington, D.C., for Appellee/Cross-Appellant Farhad Talebnejad;  Timothy J. Sullivan, College Park, Maryland, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant Abdolrahman Talebnejad.