The Second Circuit has determined that a New York conviction attempted money laundering in the second degree is not a crime involving moral turpitude because the statute does not impose the scienter requirement needed to constitute a CIMT. “Although the statute requires the defendant’s knowledge that the financial transaction is ‘designed to . . . conceal or disguise the nature, the location, the source, the ownership or the control of the proceeds of specified criminal conduct,’ it does not require that the offender act with the ‘evil intent’ that the BIA has considered to be inherent in a CIMT: that is, an intention to conceal the underlying criminal activity that created the proceeds, to impair government function, or to deceive the government.“
The full text of Jang v. Garland can be found here:
https://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/6e78bae4-78ad-4640-8871-e1e0059d8c70/5/doc/19-4289_opn.pdf#xml=https://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/6e78bae4-78ad-4640-8871-e1e0059d8c70/5/hilite/
An amended opinion ca be found here: