| Chocron of
Spain Laundered $500,000 of Bribes To
Brazil Pols Now Plea to 37 Months in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 16 – A man
from Spain pleaded guilty to
money laundering on March 16.
He explained in
his allocution that it was
addiction to gambling that let
him to do it.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Jed S. Rakoff held the
change of plea proceeding,
after a full day of presiding
over the US v. Weigand Eaze
marijuana credit card sales
trial. Inner City Press
covered both.
The
defendant from Spain explained
he was in Miami, with gambling
related money problems, and
over coffee he was convince to
go "meet a few people."
He has a letter
from the Government estimating
his sentencing guideline at 37
to 46
months.
The US Attorney's
Office said, "JOSE MORELY
CHOCRON pled guilty today
before U.S. District Judge Jed
S. Rakoff to one count of
money laundering.
CHOCRON laundered more than
$500,000 in funds that had
been represented to him to be
the proceeds of a scheme to
bribe Brazilian political
officials, using a network and
bank accounts to which he had
access by virtue of his
operation of an unlicensed
money transmitting
business....
CHOCRON explained
that he was able to receive
large amounts of cash in the
United States and arrange for
those funds to be transferred
to bank accounts because
CHOCRON “ha[d] . . . people
here that need cash.
They will transfer to you,
because they don’t want to pay
taxes . . . What do I
do? I give them the money and
they make a transfer to me.”
He also requested
a higher commission for his
services than initially
offered, stating “Let’s be
clear, that’s laundering
money.”
The case is
US v. Morely Chocron,
20-cr-400 (Rakoff).
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