United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant Ukrainian ex-prime minister's money laundering and fraud convictions are affirmed in part, where it was not necessary to plead a violation of Ukrainian law in the indictment, but reversed in part, where concealing the source of fraudulently obtained property does not amount to wire fraud.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/09/2008
• Decided 04/10/2009
• Published 04/10/2009

Judges

• Before A. WALLACE TASHIMA, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Dennis P. Riordan (argued), Donald M. Horgan, Riordan & Horgan, San Francisco, CA;  Doron Weinberg, Weinberg & Wilder, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Hartley M.K. West (argued), Assistant United States Attorney;  Scott N. Schools, United States Attorney;  Barbara J. Valliere, Chief, Appellate Section, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.