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No. 14-4881
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of North Carolina, at Charlotte.
Robert J. Conrad,
Jr., District Judge. (3:12-cr-00215-RJC-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Sean
F.
U.S.C.
Mescall
was
convicted
of:
securities
fraud,
15
1956(a)(1)(B)(i)
(2012).
The
charges
related
to
in
prison
concurrently.
for
each
offense.
The
sentences
run
We affirm.
I
On
September
9,
2009,
the
Commodities
Futures
Trading
cooperate
fully
with
the
receiver.
Mescall
violated
the
court
stayed
imposition
of
civil
contempt
sanctions
and
fraud,
subsequently
and
money
was
indicted
laundering.
2
The
for
securities
charges
fraud,
pertained
to
Following a trial,
conduct
as
the
criminal
contempt
conviction
and
thus
V.
The
Double
Jeopardy
Clause
forbids
successive
Under Blockburger v.
F.3d
257,
267
(4th
Cir.
2009)
(internal
quotation
marks
omitted).
Here,
conclusion
application
that
of
there
the
was
Blockburger
no
double
test
compels
jeopardy
the
violation.
the
other
offenses
do
not.
Additionally,
wire
v.
criminal
Wynn,
contempt
684
F.3d
does
473,
not;
477
(4th
securities
3
Cir.
fraud
2012)
contains
that
an
element
financial
transaction
designed
to
conceal
therefore
affirm.
We
dispense
with
oral
argument