28 Money Laundering: A Guide for Criminal Investigators, Third Edition
to know the source of the (drug) money used to
buy a house
• United States v. Borneld, 145 F.3d 1123 (10th Cir.
1998), in which an accountant took a large amount
of (drug) cash from a client whom he knew had little
or no legitimate income and converted the money to
check form
All of these examples are especially instructive because they
involve the sort of people (attorneys, accountants, car and
real estate dealers) who are essential to the money laundering
process but are not otherwise engaged in the illegal activity
generating the money. Because of this, it is helpful to show
that these people proted or beneted in some way from the
criminal activity or ...