UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mike MEKSIAN, Defendant-Appellant

How courts have described this case

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• holding “contaminated nature of the loan property” to have caused loss, not defendant’s false state ments
• holding “contaminated nature of the loan property” to have caused loss, not defendant’s false state- ments
• rejecting mere \but for \ standard for proving loss and reversing restitution order in fraudulent loan application case because an intervening cause for the erroneous issuance of the loan, an inaccurate environmental report, was not directly related to the offense conduct
• reversing a restitution order and concluding that the loss to the lender was caused not by the defendant’s false tax returns but “by the contaminated nature of the loan property” and by the lender’s reliance on an inaccurate environmental risk report prepared by a third party
• reversing a restitution order and concluding that the loss to the lender was caused not by the defendant's false tax returns but \by the contaminated nature of the loan property\ and by the lender's reliance on an inaccurate environmental risk report prepared by a third party
• “[T]he main inquiry for causation in restitution cases becomes whether there was an intervening cause and, if so, whether this intervening cause was directly related to the offense conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).