Opinion ID: 706022
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Heading: Adjustment for Sec. 1957 conviction for transferring over $6 million

Text: 57 Savage was convicted of thirteen counts of violating Sec. 1957, governing transfers of criminally derived proceeds. The district court concluded that the wire transfers in violation of Sec. 1957 totalled over $6 million, a figure equal to the total amount that Savage defrauded investors. The court increased the base offense level by 8. [ST 58-59] U.S.S.G. Secs. 2S1.2(b)(2), 2S1.1(b)(2)(I). Savage argues that because the $6 million figure was the total amount that Savage obtained through the fraud, the increase under Sec. 1957 improperly imposed extra punishment for the underlying criminal activity of mail and wire fraud. 58 We need not address this issue. The Sec. 1956 convictions and the Sec. 1957 convictions were grouped together to determine the offense level in the sentencing guidelines. [ST 54] See U.S.S.G. Sec. 3D1.2(d). The Sec. 1956 convictions resulted in an offense level of 35, while the Sec. 1957 convictions resulted in an offense level of 33. ST 57, 59. The offense level for the group became 35, the higher of the two offense levels. [ST 59-60] See U.S.S.G. Sec. 3D1.3(b). Thus, the offense level for the Sec. 1957 convictions was not used to calculate the final sentence.V. Conclusion 59 The judgment of conviction and the sentence are AFFIRMED.