Factual Proffer — United States v. Rivera (Dkt. 56, S.D. Fla.)

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A factual proffer entered July 5, 2022 in United States v. Osvaldo Villegas Rivera, Case No. 22-20039-CR-ALTONAGA, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, agreed between Villegas Rivera and the U.S. Attorney's Office with the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section of the Department of Justice. It states that from about 2017 until April 22, 2019 the defendant conspired to move drug proceeds from the New York/New Jersey area to Venezuela. The proffer describes about five bulk cash transactions totaling approximately $2,558,000, carried out by a network of couriers and traceable to the sale of cocaine. On April 22, 2019, it states, the defendant met a co-conspirator in Doral, Florida and discussed two recent laundering attempts totaling $1,000,000.

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Case 1:22-cr-20039-CMA Document 56 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/05/2022 Page 1 of 2

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

Case No. 22-20039-CR-ALTONAGA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Plaintiff,
vs.
OSVALDO VILLEGAS RIVERA,

Defendant.
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FACTUAL PROFFER
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida and the Money
Laundering and Asset Recovery Section of the United States Department of Justice Criminal
Division (‘“together, the Government”) and Osvaldo Villegas Rivera (hereinafter referred to as the

“defendant”) hereby agree that the Government can prove the following facts at trial beyond a

reasonable doubt:
1. Beginning in or about 2017 until April 22, 2019, the defendant conspired with at least

one other person to transport, transmit, transfer and attempt to transfer drug proceeds from the

New York/New Jersey area through Miam-Dade County to Venezuela.

2. The transfers and attempted transfers were comprised of approximately five bulk cash

transactions that totaled approximately $2,558,000 in U.S. currency.

3. The five transfers and attempted transfers affected interstate commerce and were

carried out or attempted by a network of couriers employed by the defendant and his co-

conspirator.

. Case 1:22-cr-20039-CMA Document 56 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/05/2022 Page 2 of 2

4. Atall times during the conspiracy, the defendant was aware that the five transfers and
attempted transfers were directly traceable to the sale of cocaine.

5. On April 22, 2019, the defendant flew to the Southern District of Florida and met with
a co-conspirator at a restaurant in Doral, Florida. During the meeting, the defendant and the co-
conspirator discussed two recent attempts at laundering drug proceeds through the Southern
District of Florida that totaled $1,000,000. Later in the meeting, the defendant and the co-
conspirator agreed on a plan to use new practices to launder drug proceeds in order to be more

efficient.

JUAN ANTONIO GONZALEZ
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY

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TTORNEY, MLARS
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TTORNEY FOR DEFENDANT

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OSVALDO VILLEGAS RIVERA

DEFENDANT

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