Category: White Collar Crime

Money laundering prosecutions have escalated over the past decade with some devastating effects.
 
Individuals and businesses who have handled “dirty money” can be charged and convicted as money launderers, primarily through “willful blindness” instructions to juries, if they chose…

On April 9, 2015, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted to amend economic crime guidelines and to change the drug quantity table to account for the rescheduling of hydrocodone.
 
The response from defense lawyers and others concerned with fair and…