United States First Circuit

On appeal by an owner of a supermarket chain convicted for food stamp fraud and money laundering, the district court's application of sentence enhancements and its forfeiture order are affirmed, where: 1) the district court correctly determined that under the totality of the circumstances, the appellant was clearly engaged in the business of laundering funds; 2) the evidence established the appellant's supervisory role in the conspiracy; and 3) the forfeiture was not grossly disproportional to the gravity of the appellant's offense and thus not unconstitutional under the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/17/2012
• Published 01/17/2012

Judges

• Lynch

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Anita Hill Adames, Myriam Y. Fernandez-Gonzalez