FORT WORTH, Texas - Hao Tran, 37, of Grand Prairie, Texas has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to 120 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in November 2015 to one count of money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
According to plea documents filed in the case, Tran purchased a $150,000 cashier’s check using money that came from his illegal drug trafficking business that he had been operating between California and Texas.
Tran, who has been in custody since August 2015 on a related federal criminal complaint, was also ordered to forfeit to the government property that he acknowledged was traceable to his money laundering activities, including of a parcel of land in Grand Prairie; seven vehicles, including a Bentley Continental, two Mercedes Benz, and a Hummer H2; as well as jewelry and cash.
The case was investigated by Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Poe was in charge of the prosecution.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
