NCJ Number
167915
Date Published
1995
Length
100 pages
Annotation
This memorandum describes the work done since 1992 by the Money Laundering Working Group of the United States Sentencing Commission.
Abstract
The memorandum reviews the history of the Commission's consideration of sentencing guidelines on money laundering and summarizes the 1992 report of the working group. It describes the proposed amendment to the money laundering guidelines that has been published for comment and summarizes case law and other relevant information that has become available since the 1992 report. The proposed amendment would consolidate earlier sections to make them easier to apply. It would also restructure the proposed new guideline to bring about greater conformity between the offense level for the money laundering offense and the offense level for the underlying offense that produced the proceeds involved in the money laundering offense. The purpose of this proposed structure is better to assure that sentences in money laundering cases match the seriousness of the overall offense. Footnotes and appended background materials