Opinion ID: 170808
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Counts 6-31: Money Laundering

Text: The remaining counts of the indictmentMr. Redcorn was convicted on Counts 6 through 23, and Mr. Frost on Counts 24 through 31fell under 18 U.S.C. § 1957(a), which punishes anyone who knowingly engages or attempts to engage in a monetary transaction in criminally derived property of a value greater than $10,000 and is derived from specified unlawful activity. [9] Criminally derived property is any property constituting, or derived from, proceeds obtained from a criminal offense. Id. § 1957(f)(2). Specified unlawful activity includes health care fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 669, see id. §§ 24(a)(1), 1956(c)(7)(F), 1957(f)(3), and wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1343, see id. §§ 1956(c)(7)(A), 1957(f)(3), 1961(1). Appellants now argue that, because they should be acquitted of the health care fraud and wire fraud counts, there was no criminally derived property and, as a result, these money laundering counts should be dismissed for lack of an adequate predicate. Our review shows that all the transactions charged under § 1957(a) involved the proceeds of the health care fraud charged in Count 1. As we uphold the convictions on that count, the money laundering counts stand as well.