Attorney’s Sentence Upheld in Global Money Laundering Scheme

A former lawyer convicted of wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy couldn’t convince a federal appeals court to vacate his 87-month prison sentence and a more than $2 million restitution order.

Each of Hassan Abbas’s challenges to his sentence and restitution order were rejected by the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Thursday. The appeals court affirmed the district court’s sentence, including the base offense level, sentencing enhancements, and loss amount calculations.

“Throwing the law—and his law license—to the wind, he opened bank accounts for his fake companies, into which others wired money after his co-schemers conned ...