Crimes of Moral Turpitude

Embezzlement involves moral turpitude.[105]

United States v. Del Mundo, 97 F.3d 1461 (9th Cir. 1996) (Table), cert. den., 519 U.S. 1134, 117 S.Ct. 1000, 136 L.Ed.2d 879 (1997) (embezzlement, under Nev.Rev.Stat. § 205.300(1), constitutes a crime of moral turpitude, even though one portion of the divisible statute, of which the defendant was convicted, did not require a specific intent to defraud, since by its nature it required a base violation of trust);

Delgado-Chavez v. INS, 765 F.2d 868, 869 (9th Cir. 1985) (embezzlement “involves the intent to defraud” and is therefore CMT), citing McNaughton v. INS, 612 F.2d 457, 459 (9th Cir. 1980), disagreed with by United States v. Ali, 749 F.Supp. 741 (W.D.Va. 1990);

United States ex rel. Schreiber v Reimer, 19 F.Supp. 719 (D.N.Y. 1937) (embezzlement committed in Belgium is CMT);

Matter of Robinson, 16 I. & N. Dec. 762 (BIA 1979) (willful misapplication of savings and loan association funds is CMT);

Matter of Batten, 11 I. & N. Dec. 271 (BIA 1965) (willfully misapplying funds in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 656 held CMT, since it required the intent to defraud);

Matter of Adamo, 10 I. & N. Dec. 593 (BIA 1964) (conviction of “aggravated embezzlement” under Article 646 and Article 61, No. 11, of the Italian Penal Code, is a crime involving moral turpitude).

            Money Laundering involves moral turpitude.

Matter of Tejwani, 24 I. & N. Dec. 97 (BIA 2007) (New York conviction of money laundering, in violation of N.Y. Penal Law § 470.10(1), is a crime involving moral turpitude).

[105] 9 U.S. Dep’t of State, Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM) § 40.21(a) N.2.3-1(b)(4).