6 results for 'cat:"Fraud" AND cat:"Money Laundering"'.
J. Mendoza vacates a sentence which was imposed at a previous resentencing and remands for resentencing. Defendant’s failure to challenge specific aspects of her initial sentence on a prior appeal does not waive her right to challenge comparable aspects of a newly imposed sentence. Defendant has twice been sentenced by the district court and twice appealed those sentences, stemming from her involvement in a money-laundering scheme. Vacated.
Court: 9th Circuit, Judge: Mendoza, Filed On: April 4, 2024, Case #: 22-50240, Categories: fraud, Sentencing, money Laundering
[Consolidated.] J. Pryor finds that the district court properly denied defendants' motions for a new trial after they were convicted of offenses including health care fraud, money laundering and paying kickbacks for operating fraudulent drug rehabilitation clinics. The district court correctly denied defendants' motion to compel discovery of confidential treatment records pertaining to treatment their patients received at other addiction clinics. Defendants cannot show that the records contain impeachment information. Expert testimony from a doctor and lay summary testimony from a certified fraud examiner was properly admitted. Affirmed.
Court: 11th Circuit, Judge: Pryor, Filed On: March 14, 2024, Case #: 22-10978, Categories: fraud, money Laundering
Per curiam, the circuit finds the trial court properly convicted defendant for fraud and money laundering. Defendant and his partner recruited 46 wealthy immigrants to invest $500,000 each in a fraudulent job creation entity through the government's EB-5 program, which provides wealthy immigrants a path to permanent residency. The investors were denied permanent green cards due to the lack of job creation arising from their investments, and no evidence shows jobs were ever created by defendant. Though Customs and Immigration signed off on defendant's program, this is not an affirmative misrepresentation and the defense of entrapment by estoppel does not apply. Affirmed.
Court: 5th Circuit, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: November 27, 2023, Case #: 21-30359, Categories: fraud, money Laundering
J. Ripple finds that the lower court properly convicted defendant of mail fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Evidence supports the finding that he acted as a middleman in a scheme to use fake online dating accounts to solicit hundreds of thousands of dollars from unwitting elderly people and send the money to co-conspirators in Nigeria. Affirmed.
Court: 7th Circuit, Judge: Ripple, Filed On: October 18, 2023, Case #: 22-2573, Categories: fraud, money Laundering
Per curiam, the circuit finds that the district court properly convicted defendant, who provides financial advice to professional hockey players and other high-net-worth clients, of diverting money for unauthorized use. The jury was improperly instructed on the credibility of "interested witnesses," including the adviser, but the instruction was not key to the conviction since evidence overwhelmingly established defendant's involvement in several fraudulent schemes. Meanwhile, restitution totaling $16.2 million was properly imposed. Affirmed.
Court: 2nd Circuit, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: July 24, 2023, Case #: 21-2289, Categories: fraud, Restitution, money Laundering
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