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GARY M. RESTAINO

United States Attorney

District of Arizona

KEVIN M. RAPP (Ariz. Bar No. 014249, kevin.rapp@usdoj.gov) MARGARET PERLMETER (Ariz. Bar No. 024805, margaret.perlmeter@usdoj.gov) PETER S. KOZINETS (Ariz. Bar No. 019856, peter.kozinets@usdoj.gov) 

ANDREW C. STONE (Ariz. Bar No. 026543, andrew.stone@usdoj.gov) 

Assistant U.S. Attorneys 

40 N. Central Avenue, Suite 1800 

Phoenix, Arizona 85004-4408 

Telephone (602) 514-7500 

DAN G. BOYLE (N.Y. Bar No. 5216825, daniel.boyle2@usdoj.gov) Special Assistant U.S. Attorney 

312 N. Spring Street, Suite 1400 

Los Angeles, CA 90012 

Telephone (213) 894-2426 

NICOLE M. ARGENTIERI

Acting Assistant Attorney General Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice 

AUSTIN M. BERRY (Texas Bar No. 24062615, austin.berry2@usdoj.gov) 

U.S. Department of Justice 

Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section 

1301 New York Avenue, NW, 11th Floor 

Washington, D.C. 20005 

Telephone (202) 412-4136 

Attorneys for Plaintiff

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

United States of America, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

Michael Lacey, et al., 

 Defendants. 

CR-18-422-PHX-DJH 

UNITED STATES’ MOTION FOR 

CORRECTION OF THE COURT’S 

APRIL 23, 2024 ORDER AND 

JUDGMENTS

(Docs. 2063, 2064, and 2066) 

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In its April 23, 2024 Order on Defendants’ Oral and Supplemental Rule 29 Motions 

(Order), the Court denied Defendant Michael Lacey and John Brunst’s motions for 

acquittal regarding Counts 64-68 of the Superseding Indictment. (Doc. 2063 at 47-48.) 

Counts 64-68 charged Lacey and Brunst with International Promotional Money 

Laundering regarding five transfers from Ad Tech B.V. to Cereus Properties, in violation 

of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(A). (Doc. 230 ¶¶ 206-207.) After carefully analyzing the law 

and evidence, the Court found that Defendants had failed to show entitlement to Rule 29 

relief on these counts. (Doc. 2063 at 47-48.) Accordingly, the Court wrote, “Defendants’ 

requests for judgments of acquittal on Counts 64-68 are denied.” (Doc. 2063 at 48.) 

In a separate part of the Order, the Court found insufficient evidence to support 

Counts 69-99, which charged Transactional Money Laundering, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 

§ 1957(a). (Doc. 2063 at 55-57; Doc. 230 ¶¶ 208-209.) 

 In the Order’s Conclusion, however, the Court wrote that it had found insufficient 

evidence to support, among others, Counts 66-99. (Doc. 2063 at 73.) The Court directed 

the Clerk to issue Judgments of Acquittal for Lacey and Brunst on counts that included 

Counts 66-68. (Doc. 2063 at 73.) The Court then entered judgments of acquittal for Lacey 

and Brunst that included Counts 66-68. (Doc. 2064 at 1; Doc. 2066 at 1.) 

 Based on the Court’s Rule 29 ruling—which expressly denied Defendants’ requests 

for judgments of acquittal on Counts 64-68 (Doc. 2063 at 48)—it appears that the Order’s 

concluding statements and directions regarding Counts 66-68 involved a non-substantive 

clerical or similar error that did not accurately conform with the Court’s ruling. If so, then 

the United States respectfully moves the Court to issue: (1) an amended Order that omits 

Counts 66-68 from its concluding statements, and directions to the Clerk, on page 73 of 

Doc. 2063; (2) an amended Judgment of Acquittal for Lacey that omits Counts 66-68; and 

(3) an amended Judgment of Acquittal for Brunst that omits Counts 66-68. See Fed. R. 

Crim. P. 36 (“After giving any notice it considers appropriate, the court may at any time 

correct a clerical error in a judgment, order, or other part of the record, or correct an error 

in the record arising from oversight or omission.”).

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Respectfully submitted this 26th day of April, 2024.

 GARY M. RESTAINO United States Attorney District of Arizona

 NICOLE M. ARGENTIERI

Acting Assistant Attorney General Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice 

s/ Peter S. Kozinets 

KEVIN M. RAPP

MARGARET PERLMETER

PETER KOZINETS

ANDREW STONE

DANIEL BOYLE

 Assistant U.S. Attorneys 

 AUSTIN M. BERRY

Trial Attorney 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on April 26, 2024, I electronically transmitted the attached 

document to the Clerk’s Office using the CM/ECF System for filing and transmittal of a 

Notice of Electronic Filing to the CM/ECF registrants who have entered their appearance 

as counsel of record. 

s/ Daniel Parke

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