United States v. Robert Morales, Sr.
Opinion
Opinion
Beezer, J.
Robert Morales appeals the district court’s denial of his motion to vacate or reduce monthly payments on his fine. The district court dismissed the motion for lack of jurisdiction. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.
I
Morales worked as an agent for the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”). During his employment, Morales accepted 6437 bribes. In 1991, Morales pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States, money laundering, official corruption and tax fraud. Morales received a sentence of 144 months in prison and a fine of $607,000. Morales also received three years of supervised release. The fine represents the amount of known bribes accepted by Morales during his work as an IRS agent. The fine is collected through offsets against Morales’s civil service pension under 31 U.S.C. § 3716 . The government collected funds from Morales’s pension while Morales was incarcerated. Following Morales’s release from prison, the government began collecting the sum of $1,506.21 from his $2,500 civil service monthly pension.
In 2002, Morales moved to vacate the fine or to reduce payments on the fine. The district court denied the motion, holding that…