United States v. Ruben Reinis

HARDY, District Judge:

Ruben Reinis was convicted of aiding and abetting a bank’s failure to report currency transactions as required by 31 U.S.C. § 5313(a) (“the Reporting Act”) in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2, conspiring to violate the Reporting Act in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, and causing concealment of a material fact from the Internal Revenue Service in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001. We reverse.

Reinis ran a money laundering operation. On several different days, he and his agents paid cash to purchase cashier’s checks from various banks. Each of the checks was for less than $10,000. The…