United States Third Circuit

An attorney's conviction and sentence for conspiracy to commit money laundering, money laundering, and conspiracy to structure currency transactions is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) sufficiency of the evidence; 2) jury instruction; 3) the legal sufficiency of the district court's non-testifying defendant charge; 4) sentence calculation; and 5) the reasonableness of the sentence under Booker.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/07/2006
• Decided 07/21/2006
• Published 07/21/2006

Judges

• Before RENDELL and AMBRO, Circuit Judges, SHAPIRO, District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark A. Berman, Esquire (Argued), Claudia Van Wyk, Esquire, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vechione, Newark, NJ, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher J. Christie, United States Attorney, George S. Leone, Chief, Appeals Division, Caroline A. Sadlowski (Argued), Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of United States Attorney, Newark, NJ, Norman J. Gross, Esquire, Office of United States Attorney, Camden, NJ, for Appellee.