Kevin Paul Calmes, supervisor at Calmes Motorsports LLC in Denham Springs, educated drug dealers on how to launder illegal profits through the motorcycle and all-terrain vehicle dealership, a federal prosecutor alleged Monday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Rene I. Salomon told a jury of eight women and four men on the opening day of trial that Calmes, 40, “had to teach the drug dealers how to spend their money without appearing like drug dealers.”
Both Calmes and the dealership are accused of money laundering and structuring cash transactions to avoid filing required reports on cash purchases of more than $10,000 to the Internal Revenue Service and federal Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
“Kevin Calmes hasn’t broken any laws,” the supervisor’s attorney, John S. McLindon, told the jury. “He is not guilty of any of this stuff.”
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