N.Y. PEN Law § 470.03

§ 470.03 Money laundering: aggregation of value; other matters.\n 1. For purposes of subdivisions one and three of sections 470.05,\n470.10, 470.15, 470.21, 470.22 and 470.23, and for purposes of\nsubdivisions one and two of sections 470.20 and 470.24 of this article,\nfinancial transactions may be considered together and the value of the\nproperty involved may be aggregated, provided that the transactions are\nall part of a single "criminal transaction" as defined in subdivision\ntwo of section 40.10 of the criminal procedure law.\n 2. For purposes of subdivision two of sections 470.05, 470.10, 470.15,\n470.21, 470.22 and 470.23 of this article, separate occasions involving\nthe transport, transmittal or transfer of monetary instruments may be\nconsidered together and the value of the monetary instruments involved\nmay be aggregated, provided that the occasions are all part of a single\n"criminal transaction" as defined in subdivision two of section 40.10 of\nthe criminal procedure law.\n 3. Nothing in sections 470.05, 470.21, 470.22, 470.23 and 470.24;\nparagraph (b) of subdivision one, paragraph (b) of subdivision two and\nparagraph (b) of subdivision three of section 470.10; paragraph (b) of\nsubdivision one, paragraph (b) of subdivision two and paragraph (b) of\nsubdivision three of section 470.15; or paragraph (b) of subdivision one\nand paragraph (b) of subdivision two of section 470.20 of this article\nshall make it unlawful to return funds held in escrow:\n (a) as a portion of a purchase price for real property pursuant to a\ncontract of sale; or\n (b) to satisfy the tax or other lawful obligations arising out of an\nadministrative or judicial proceeding concerning the person who provided\nthe escrow funds.\n