U.S. v. BERMUDEZ

Docket No. 02-1699(L), 03-1169(CON), 03-1232(CON), 03-1345(CON), 03-1669(CON).

413 F.3d 304 (2005)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Santiago BERMUDEZ, Bahman Radfar, also known as William, also known as Bill, also known as Will, Nizar Kharfan, Ramez Karaawi, also known as Ramir, Martha Gallego, Sandra Kharfan, Amin Omar Said, Defendants, Jamal Fakih, Hossein Radfar, also known as Ban, Nadir Kharfan, Khalil Kharfan, also known as Abul Hin also known as Boualhen, Ahmad Issa, Defendants—Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 29, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lucas E. Andino, Law Office of Ivan S. Fisher, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellant Khalil Kharfan.

Boyd M. Johnson, III, Assistant United States Attorney (David N. Kelley, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on the brief; Lauren Goldberg, Adam B. Siegel, of counsel), New York, New York, for Appellee.

Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, POOLER and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Beginning in 1999, Khalil Kharfan and his associates laundered millions of dollars of cocaine proceeds in New York and Miami and transferred them to Colombia. Kharfan operated from Bogota, Colombia, where he directed the operation, kept detailed records on his laptop computer, and negotiated payments. Kharfan and several associates pled guilty to conspiring to launder money in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(h).1 Following...

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