United States Second Circuit

Defendant's money laundering conspiracy guilty plea is vacated and remanded where the record lacked a sufficient factual basis to conclude that defendant participated in the alleged conspiracy with the requisite knowledge of the concealment element of the crime charged.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/01/2009
• Published 12/01/2009

Judges

• GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:, Before:  JACOBS, Chief Judge, SACK and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Brent S. Wible, Assistant United States Attorney (Brendan R. McGuire, Andrew L. Fish, of Counsel), for Lev L. Dassin, Acting United Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Appellee., Jonathan I. Edelstein, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.