United States Sixth Circuit

Because Congress intended money laundering, 18 U.S.C. section 1957, to be a punishable criminal offense separate from the underlying offense of mail fraud, there is no Double Jeopardy bar to simultaneous convictions for both crimes.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2002
• Published 01/24/2002

Judges

• Before:  SILER and COLE, Circuit Judges;  STAFFORD, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Charles P. Wisdom, Jr. (briefed), Asst. U.S. Atty., Kenneth R. Taylor (briefed), John Patrick Grant (briefed), Asst. U.S. Atty., Lexington, KY, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Stephen W. Owens (briefed), Owens & Wright, Pikeville, KY, for Defendant-Appellant.