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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 net
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