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# Federal Money Laundering Sentences in the Western District of Oklahoma, FY2016–2025
- URL: https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-money-laundering-sentences-western-district-of-oklahoma/
- Published: 2026-11-04T11:10:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-04T11:10:32.000Z
- Description: The median prison term for money laundering in the Western District of Oklahoma was 90 months in fiscal years 2016 to 2025, compared with 40 months across all 94 federal districts. 94 people were sentenced, and 86 of them (91%) went to prison.
- Author: Jocelyn C. Stewart
- Tags: Understanding Trends, Federal

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**In brief:** The median prison term for money laundering in the Western District of Oklahoma was 90 months in fiscal years 2016 to 2025, compared with 40 months across all 94 federal districts. 94 people were sentenced, and 86 of them (91%) went to prison.

Updated November 4, 2026 · Sources: U.S. Sentencing Commission and Federal Judicial Center, fiscal years 2016–2025

This post uses the U.S. Sentencing Commission's records of 94 people sentenced in federal court in fiscal years 2016 to 2025\. Acquittals and dismissals come from a second source, the Federal Judicial Center's records of 753,808 federal defendants whose cases ended in fiscal years 2016 to 2025\. It is part of the [Federal Prosecution Analysis](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal/) series, which builds on [Military Moves Toward Sentencing Guidelines to Mirror the Federal System](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/military-sentencing-guidelines-federal-system/). How the numbers were built: [How the Federal Comparison Data Was Built](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-data-methodology/).

## Longer Prison Terms Than the National Median

Among the 86 people sent to prison, the median prison term was 90 months (7.5 years). A quarter received 159 months or more, and a quarter received 33 months or less. 2 people received a life sentence.

For all 94 districts together, the offense type "Money Laundering" had 12,171 people and a median prison term of 40 months. The median in this district was higher, and it was also higher than the 46 months for all offenses here.

6 people (6%) received probation only, with no prison or other confinement.

## Mandatory Minimums Applied to 40% of People

A mandatory minimum prison term applied to 38 of the 94 people with that information recorded (40%).

The guideline range is the range calculated under the Commission's guidelines. Only 13% of sentences (12 people) were within it. 55% (52 people) were below the range without a government request, and 32% (30 people) were below it at the government's request. 0 sentences were above the range.

Across all districts, 25% of money laundering sentences were within the range. Across all offenses in the Western District of Oklahoma, 50% were within the range.

## Which Guidelines Were Used

Money laundering is the U.S. Sentencing Commission's category. 89 people had §2S1.1 (Laundering of Monetary Instruments) as the primary guideline, and 5 had §2S1.3 (Structuring Transactions to Evade Reporting Requirements).

2% of the 4,661 people sentenced in the district during these years fall in this group.

## Pleas, Trials, and Plea Agreements

86 of 94 people (91%) pleaded guilty, and 8 were convicted after a trial. The median prison term after a guilty plea was 84 months. After a trial, it was 120 months, based on 7 people sent to prison.

94% of the guilty pleas had a written plea agreement, and 6% were straight pleas. The guilty plea rate here was 91%, lower than the 97% for all offenses in the district.

## Criminal History and Post-Prison Orders

64% of the people were in the lowest criminal history category I, and 11% were in the highest (VI). Court-martial records have no criminal history field.

79 people (84%) were ordered to serve supervised release, with a median term of 36 months. No fine was ordered (0, or 0%), and restitution was ordered for 6 people (6%).

## Yearly Counts and Medians

39 people were sentenced in fiscal years 2016 to 2019 and 55 in fiscal years 2020 to 2025\. Each year has between 6 and 14 people.

The yearly median ranges from 10 months in 2016 to 150 months in both 2022 and 2023\. Counts this small make single-year medians unreliable, and the table is not evidence of a trend.

| Fiscal year | People sentenced | Median prison | Pleaded guilty |
| ----------- | ---------------- | ------------- | -------------- |
| 2016        | 6                | 10 months     | 5 of 6         |
| 2017        | 9                | 48 months     | 7 of 9         |
| 2018        | 14               | 139.5 months  | 100%           |
| 2019        | 10               | 72 months     | 90%            |
| 2020        | 7                | 130 months    | 6 of 7         |
| 2021        | 13               | 120 months    | 92%            |
| 2022        | 6                | 150 months    | 6 of 6         |
| 2023        | 8                | 150 months    | 8 of 8         |
| 2024        | 13               | 60 months     | 92%            |
| 2025        | 8                | 36 months     | 7 of 8         |

## What the Data Does Not Cover

Only convictions that led to a sentence are counted. Acquittals and dismissals are outside the dataset.

A prison term in this data is the term ordered at sentencing rather than time served.

This page does not tie any of these cases to a military installation. Altus AFB, Fort Sill, and Tinker AFB lie in the district, and their courts-martial go through military courts.

### How We Counted

Everyone sentenced in federal court in the Western District of Oklahoma (U.S. Sentencing Commission district label "Oklahoma West") in fiscal years 2016 to 2025 whose offense type was "Money Laundering" (94). Offense types are the Commission's OFFGUIDE categories.

Federal fiscal years run from October 1 to September 30\. No person, judge, or lawyer is identified in any of these records.

### What to Keep in Mind

**No parole in federal prison; credit for good conduct.** Federal prison has no parole for crimes committed on or after November 1, 1987\. A federal prisoner can earn up to 54 days of good conduct credit for each year of the sentence the judge imposed, which is about 15%. Some federal prisoners can also earn First Step Act time credits, but many offenses make a person ineligible. The numbers in this post are the sentences judges imposed, not the time people actually served.

**Federal supervised release.** Most federal prison sentences are followed by a term of supervised release that the judge sets as part of the sentence. A person who violates it can be sent back to prison. A court-martial cannot sentence anyone to supervision after release. Military parole and mandatory supervised release are decided later by a board, not by the judge at trial.

**Who decides the sentence, and under what rules.** Federal judges sentence every federal case. They must calculate the Sentencing Guidelines range, which is advisory, and must impose any mandatory minimum the statute requires unless an exception applies. In courts-martial, the accused could choose sentencing by members until the rules changed. For cases in which every guilty finding is for an offense committed after December 27, 2023, a military judge sentences alone, within sentencing parameters. Courts-martial tried in 2024 and later include both old-rule and new-rule cases, and the data cannot tell them apart.

**Time periods.** Federal numbers are by federal fiscal year (October 1 to September 30), based on the sentencing date. The military numbers are by trial date. Neither source has the date of the offense, so a change in law shows up in either data set gradually.

**How life sentences and "time served" are counted.** In the federal numbers, a life sentence is counted as 470 months, and any other sentence longer than 470 months is counted as just under 470 months. A sentence of "time served" is counted as one day (0.03 months). Averages are affected by these rules; medians much less.

**Mandatory minimum sentences.** Many federal statutes on drugs, images of child exploitation, child sex abuse, and firearms carry mandatory minimum prison terms. The UCMJ has mandatory minimums only for a few offenses (a dishonorable discharge or dismissal for rape and sexual assault, and life for premeditated murder). Federal sentences for these offenses are partly set by Congress, not by the judge.

## Related Analysis

- [Military Moves Toward Sentencing Guidelines to Mirror the Federal System](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/military-sentencing-guidelines-federal-system/) (the background article)
- [Federal Prosecution Analysis](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal/) (all federal posts)
- [How the Federal Comparison Data Was Built](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-data-methodology/) (sources and method)
- [Federal Sentences in the Western District of Oklahoma, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-district-western-district-of-oklahoma/) (overview)
- [Federal Drug Trafficking Sentences in the Western District of Oklahoma, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-drug-trafficking-sentences-western-district-of-oklahoma/) (same district, other offense type)
- [Federal Firearms Sentences in the Western District of Oklahoma, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-firearms-sentences-western-district-of-oklahoma/) (same district, other offense type)
- [Federal Immigration Offense Sentences in the Western District of Oklahoma, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-immigration-sentences-western-district-of-oklahoma/) (same district, other offense type)
- [Federal Fraud, Theft, and Embezzlement Sentences in the Western District of Oklahoma, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-fraud-theft-embezzlement-sentences-western-district-of-oklahoma/) (same district, other offense type)
- [U.S. Sentencing Commission, Individual Offender Datafiles](https://www.ussc.gov/research/datafiles/commission-datafiles?ref=bodiesburied.com) (source)
- [Federal Judicial Center, Integrated Database (criminal defendants)](https://www.fjc.gov/research/idb?ref=bodiesburied.com) (source)

**About the author.** Jocelyn C. Stewart is a retired Army JAG with more than 24 years of trying courts-martial and more than 200 jury trials. She hosts *Where All The Bodies Are Buried* and runs the [Law Office of Jocelyn C. Stewart](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/?ref=bodiesburied.com). This analysis is for education and information only. It is not legal advice, and every case is different.