Suspended lawyer gets 5 years in money-laundering case; man who gave him the money gets 30 months
A suspended Minnesota attorney was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison for using his law firm to launder money from a brother-in-law who sold marijuana.
Robert Boedigheimer, 52, needed loans to fund his lavish lifestyle. So the personal injury lawyer gave his brother-in-law, Brandon Lusk, a no-show job at his law firm, prosecutors said, and laundered drug money from Lusk, reports the Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Boedigheimer was convicted by a Minneapolis jury last year of money-laundering, money-laundering conspiracy and making false statements to an Internal Revenue Service agent.
An indictment said the attorney was given cash by Lusk, who got around 80 percent back in the form of a payroll check for a phony consulting position, an earlier Minneapolis Star Tribune article explains.
Lusk pleaded guilty in 2011 to money-laundering conspiracy. He got 30 months, the Pioneer Press reports.
