United States v. William J. McCorkle

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

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After finding William and Chantal McCorkle guilty of laundering the proceeds of a fraudulent telemarketing scheme, 1 the jury returned a special verdict forfeiting to the United States the McCorkles’ interests in various assets. Among these assets were $2 million that had been placed in trust by the McCorkles in the Cayman Islands for the payment of their lawyers’ fees and transferred by the trust to F. Lee Bailey, William McCorkle’s attorney. 2 At the January 25, 1999 sentencing, the district court, as a part of the McCorkles’ sentencing package, entered an order of…