United States v. Inco Bank & Trust Corporation

This appeal presents the question whether a member of a criminal conspiracy that takes place both in the United States and in a foreign country can be convicted of engaging in the conspiracy if he performs no overt act within the United States. We answer the question in the affirmative.

Inco Bank & Trust Corporation is a Cayman Islands bank; it does business with and maintains accounts at several banks in Florida, but is not otherwise present in the United States. 1 The indictment in this case charged that Inco Bank and others conspired in the Northern District of Florida and elsewhere to…