(Providence, RI) -- The federal appeals court in Boston has upheld a lower court ruling that the wife and brother-in-law of a convicted Rhode Island coin dealer must each forfeit 136-million-dollars. Steven Saccoccia was convicted in 1993 of laundering millions-of-dollars for a Colombian drug cartel. The Providence Journal reports Donna Saccoccia and her brother argued the forfeiture judgments should be dismissed claiming no responsibility. However, in its ruling, the lower court determined they played important roles in the money laundering.