Commonwealth v. Braune

**304 *966 The defendant, Shea Braune, was convicted of receiving stolen property and money laundering after she and her girlfriend, Romi Kimell, used over $ 300,000 in cash that Kimell had stolen from her mother and stepfather to fund a lavish lifestyle. In an ill-fated attempt to cover their tracks, Kimell gave a substantial amount of the stolen cash to Braune, who deposited it into her checking account through a series of transactions, each under $ 10,000, later claiming to have received the money in an inheritance. A subset of these deposits forms the basis for Braune's money laundering…