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any number of reasons; maybe he was hiding it from an ex-
wife or a creditor. Could he have been planning to buy some
drugs down in Mexico? The court didn’t know because the
government couldn’t or didn’t say. The court said that if the
government wanted to claim that the money was being laun-
dered with the intent to “conceal or disguise” its source, own-
ership, or control, it needed to show that Cuellar did more
than just conceal the cash during the transportation.
Other courts have taken this reading of the law into other
parts of the money laundering statute. In United States v.
Faulkenberry, Case ...