What is the test for money laundering in a criminal case?

³⁰ Indeed, it is often the case that the proceeds of the criminal offense were derived long before the money laundering transaction. Imagine a scenario where an individual sold drugs in 2005 and hid the cash proceeds in her basement for ten years. Imagine further that she then decided to sell the house in 2015 and deposited the cash from the basement into a bank account disguised as proceeds from the sale of the house. Although she could not be prosecuted for the narcotics trafficking, as the statute of limitations would have run, the government could still prosecute her for the money laundering. See generally United States v. Szur , 289 F.3d 200, 214 (2d Cir. 2002) ("[M]oney laundering does not focus on the specifics of the predicate offense, [and] it does not matter when all the acts constituting the predicate offense take place." (quoting United States v. Mankarious , 151 F.3d 694, 706 (7th Cir. 1998) )).