Legal Opinion
United States v. Giovanni Lignarolo and Mario Lignarolo
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 10, 1985No. 83-5243PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the question of whether one can be convicted under the Travel Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1952(a)(1) (1982), by traveling from one state to another to “launder” the cash receipts of drug traffickers. We answer the question in the affirmative.
In 1979, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) discovered that the cash deposits at the Continental Bank in Miami, Florida were unusually large. Many of the deposits were being made to the accounts of persons or entities living or located in South America, principally Colombia, and the FBI suspected that some of the…
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