Michael Sean Riley, Money Laundering, Pennsylvania 2020

A Florida man has been sentenced to prison for his role in a money laundering conspiracy involving $800,000 in drug proceeds.

Michael Sean Riley, 52, of Ocala, Florida, was sentenced to 72 months' imprisonment and ordered to forfeit up to $800,000 by United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner for his role in the money laundering conspiracy.

According to United States Attorney David J. Freed, Riley arranged with John T. Oiler to rent a storage unit in Baltimore and travel to Pennsylvania to take possession of more than $800,000 of cash drug proceeds Riley skimmed from a larger load of cash. Oiler took the vast majority of those proceeds and stored them in the rented unit in Baltimore.

Riley then contacted his cousin, Timothy Riley, then a Narcotics Agent of the PA Attorney General's Office Bureau of Narcotics Investigations Mobile Street Crimes Unit, and turned over the rest of the cash proceeds to him and other agents from the Mobile Street Crimes Unit. Riley paid Timothy Riley three cash payments totaling $48,000 which Timothy Riley subsequently laundered.

Oiler and Riley each netted about $400,000 of the proceeds and each conducted numerous financial transactions with the cash drug proceeds. Coconspirator Timothy B. Riley was sentenced to 36 months' imprisonment and conspirator John T. Oiler was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment.

The case was investigated by the Harrisburg Offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation, with the full assistance of the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General. Assistant U.S. Attorneys James T. Clancy and Carlo Marchioli prosecuted the case.

This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. The program was reinvigorated in 2017 as part of the renewed focus on targeting violent criminals, directing all U.S. Attorney's Offices to work in partnership with federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement and the local community to develop effective, locally-based strategies to reduce violent crime.

Mandatory Facts:

• Defendant: Michael Sean Riley
• Criminal Charges: Money Laundering
• City and State: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Exact Date: September 29, 2020
• Sentence: 72 months' imprisonment and ordered to forfeit up to $800,000
• Dollar Amounts: $800,000 in drug proceeds, $48,000 in cash payments, $400,000 netted by Oiler and Riley

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/florida-man-sentenced-drug-proceeds-money-laundering-case