United States v. Abuhouran

OPINION

POLLAK, District Judge.

In this § 2255 habeas action, Hitham Abuhouran (a/k/a Steve Honran), acting pro se, has raised five challenges to the 188-month sentence imposed upon him after he pled guilty in 1996 to, among other charges, four counts of money laundering and fifteen counts of bank fraud. The five points Mr. Abuhouran raises are as follows: (1) the indictment impermissibly relies upon a single transaction as the basis for charges of both bank fraud and money laundering; (2) assistance of counsel was ineffective because of the failure to raise point 1; (3) one of the counts in…