Atlanta Woman’s Money Laundering Conviction Upheld by 6th Cir.

An Atlanta woman who “helped” low-income borrowers obtain loans using forged documents lost an appeal on Thursday challenging her money laundering conspiracy conviction.

Overwhelming evidence supported the jury’s verdict, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said.

Wynde Collins claimed that the government failed to prove that the conspiracy covered a substantive money laundering offense, arguing that she merely spent the proceeds—her 10% fee—that she obtained from the fraudulent transaction.

But the government presented enough evidence to prove that she engaged in financial transactions with the intent of promoting her bank-fraud scheme, the court said.

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