- 7 - Cunningham also pleaded guilty to the above criminal charge. As part of his plea agreement, Cunningham testified against petitioner before a Federal grand jury regarding various illegal drug transactions in which he and petitioner participated in 1985, 1986, and 1987. On September 13, 1990, in an additional indictment filed in the Federal District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, petitioner was charged with 17 counts of illegal drug trafficking, filing false tax returns, and engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise in connection with the illegal drug transactions that Cunningham had testified about and that occurred beginning in the fall of 1984, in 1985, 1986, and 1987, and in early 1988. In July of 1992, petitioner pleaded guilty to some of the charges, and petitioner was convicted on all charges submitted to the jury. Petitioner was sentenced to a prison term of 150 months. Also, the Government obtained another criminal forfeiture against petitioner of $395,670 (the amount of the net proceeds that the District Court determined petitioner received from the related drug transactions, after deducting $857,030 for petitioner’s estimated costs of purchasing and transporting the marijuana and after deducting $236,650 for one-half of the netPage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next
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