United States v. Patricia R. Robinson

On four separate occasions between May 17 and July 15 of 1985 appellant Robinson, at that time a teller for First Interstate Bank in Eugene, Oregon, accepted amounts of cash totaling over $10,000 from an undercover agent and wired the money to a bank in California. She received an agreed compensation for this service. Robinson structured her monetary transmittals so that no one transaction involved more than $10,000 to assure that none of the banks would have to file a Currency Transaction Report (CTR). Although Robinson trans mitted money by wire through First Interstate and on three of the occasions received the currency from the undercover agent at her teller window, she conducted the transactions on her own time and paid First Interstate for the wires just as would any other customer utilizing the services of the bank to transfer large or small amounts of money to a bank at a distant location. Robinson also utilized the services of other banks in addition to those of First Interstate. The indictment charged Robinson with four counts of violating 31 U.S.C. § 5313 and four counts of violating 18 U.S.C. § 1001 .

On October 18, 1985, a jury found appellant guilty on all counts.…