Scammer’s Conviction Valid in $1.2 Million Money Laundering Case

A Georgia federal district court’s rulings in a trial for two money laundering crimes were upheld by the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday.

Sherlyn Sims was convicted on both counts for her involvement in romance scams and business email compromise schemes. She allegedly laundered $1.2 million in ill-gotten gains through bank accounts opened in the name of Grace Trading LLC, a sham women’s and children’s clothing company.

Combined, the evidence, “while circumstantial, was sufficient to support Sims’s convictions,” said the unpublished per curiam opinion from the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

The government tied Sims to the schemes ...