Opinion ID: 707621
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Heading: Purchase of Piper Navajo

Text: 56 As previously discussed, the district court admitted evidence of a 1986 cash purchase of a Piper Navajo by Golb, Franco and Morales. Golb told the seller that he was acting for Franco and agreed to pay a premium so that the purchase could be done with cash. The final payment was $200,000 in twenty dollar bills. Golb told the seller that the cash premium was lower than they were used to paying, and that if we could do more business we could do millions of dollars of business. [5/12/92 RT at 45]. Golb also used the phrase cleaning up money in the context of possible future transactions. [5/12/92 RT at 51-52]. 57 This evidence was properly admitted under Fed.R.Evid. 404(b) which allows the introduction of evidence of other wrongs to as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident, to show Golb's knowledge that airplane purchases can be and are used to launder money. Moreover, the evidence sheds light on the relationship among Golb, Morales and Franco which is relevant to their later transactions.