Presentation
Santos and Cuellar: The U.S. Supreme Court Limits the Government's Ability to Prosecute Transnational Crime Under the Money Laundering Statutes
Twenty-sixth Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime
(2008)
Abstract
These are the lecture notes from a presentation on the impact of the Supreme Court's decisions on June 2, 2008 in the Santos and Cuellar cases, which arguably have limited the government's ability to use the anti-money laundering statutes to prosecute both domestic and international money laundering offenses. A more formal paper on this topic will be forthcoming.
Keywords
- money laundering,
- Santos,
- Cuellar,
- proceeds of crime,
- profits
Disciplines
Publication Date
September 1, 2008
Citation Information
Stefan D Cassella. "Santos and Cuellar: The U.S. Supreme Court Limits the Government's Ability to Prosecute Transnational Crime Under the Money Laundering Statutes" Twenty-sixth Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime (2008) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/stefan_cassella/24/