Sometimes, even medium sentences for money laundering fail to serve as a deterrence to career money launderers. Take CARLOS ALBERTO PADRON, sentenced to federal Prison for money laundering for 97 months. When finally released, and under Supervised Release, he goes right back to a life of financial crime. We see he has just now pled guilty, in SDFL, to yet another money laundering charge, in this case for laundering the proceeds of Medicare fraud.
The second indictment is, of course, a violation of his Supervised Release. So, he is sentenced to 70 months on the new charge, while another judge tacks on 20 months for his violation of Supervised Release, the modern form of post-conviction supervision, where you must not violate the law He now got 90 months. If the original sentences for money laundering would start approaching the 20 year maximum, perhaps prospective laundrymen might just be deterred from committing more crimes. Make the punishment severe, and you eliminate recidivism, in my humble opinion. If you are doing 20 years, you will not be back in circulation laundering the proceeds of crime again. Nobody in the Department of Justice seems to understand that.
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