United States v. Gómez-Encarnación

KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.

*54In 2014, Defendant Santos Gómez-Encarnación was charged with both money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956. Tried, convicted on both counts, and sentenced to fifty-one months in prison, he now appeals both his conviction and his sentence. For the following reasons, we affirm.

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