Opinion ID: 200606
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Money Laundering Count

Text: 69 Manuel and Andrés argue that the sentencing court erred when it sentenced them to the maximum term on the money laundering count without making any particularized findings of fact regarding the value of the funds laundered. As explained in the preceding section, however, the district court made no findings whatsoever on the money laundering count because the court grouped the two counts and calculated Manuel and Andrés's GSRs only according to its findings on the most serious count, i.e., the drug count. Once the court determined the total punishment for Manuel and Andrés, it was then obligated to sentence them to the statutory maximum on each count, and impose those sentences consecutively, in order to achieve a final sentence that most closely approximated that total punishment. Thus, if the district court had made particularized findings on the money laundering count, they would have had no effect on the ultimate sentence imposed. We therefore reject this assignment of error.