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Date Created: 2023-03-15 18:01:06.005952+00
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Case: 22-10162         Document: 00516677130             Page: 1      Date Filed: 03/15/2023

              United States Court of Appeals
                   for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                               United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                        Fifth Circuit
                                       No. 22-10162
                                     Summary Calendar                                 FILED
                                     ____________                                March 15, 2023
                                                                                 Lyle W. Cayce
   Richard Olive,                                                                     Clerk

                                                                   Petitioner—Appellant,

                                             versus

   Warden FMC Fort Worth,

                                                Respondent—Appellee.
                      ______________________________

                      Appeal from the United States District Court
                          for the Northern District of Texas
                               USDC No. 4:21-CV-1032
                      ______________________________

   Before Smith, Southwick, and Douglas, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
          Richard Olive, federal prisoner # 21100-075, appeals the dismissal for
   lack of jurisdiction of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 application. He had challenged his
   2013 convictions and sentences for mail fraud, wire fraud, and money
   laundering. Specifically, he contended that one of his money laundering
   convictions was precluded by United States v. Santos, 553 U.S. 507 (2008),

          _____________________
          *
              This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
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   which clarified the definition of the term “proceeds” as used in 18 U.S.C. §
   1956(a)(1). He further argued that he is entitled to bring his Santos claim
   under § 2241, in lieu of surmounting 28 U.S.C. § 2255’s successive filing bar,
   because he satisfied § 2255(e)’s “savings clause” in light of Garland v. Roy,
   615 F.3d 391, 402 (5th Cir. 2010), which held Santos to have retroactive
   application to cases on collateral review.
          Pursuant to § 2255(e), a prisoner may challenge the basis of his federal
   custody in a § 2241 application if he shows that the remedy under § 2255 “is
   inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of his detention.” § 2255(e);
   Reyes-Requena v. United States, 243 F.3d 893, 901 (5th Cir. 2001). “[T]he
   savings clause of § 2255 applies to a claim (i) that is based on a retroactively
   applicable Supreme Court decision which establishes that the petitioner may
   have been convicted of a nonexistent offense and (ii) that was foreclosed by
   circuit law at the time when the claim should have been raised in the
   petitioner’s trial, appeal, or first § 2255 motion.” Id. at 904.
          Olive fails to show error by the district court. See Christopher v. Miles,
   342 F.3d 378, 381 (5th Cir. 2003). Santos was decided five years before
   Olive’s trial. In fact, Olive raised an identical Santos claim on direct appeal,
   which the Sixth Circuit rejected. United States v. Olive, 804 F.3d 747, 756–
   59 (6th Cir. 2015).     Though Olive disagrees with the Sixth Circuit’s
   interpretation of Santos, disagreement does not satisfy the savings clause.
   Hammoud v. Ma’at, 49 F.4th 874, 880-81 (5th Cir. 2022) (en banc), cert.
   denied, 2023 WL 124108 (U.S. Jan. 9, 2023) (No. 22-512).
          AFFIRMED.

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