United States v. Brett Muscatell, Lewis H. Bower, Jr.

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• explaining that the evidence implicated the same actors in common roles with the same modus operandi
• evidence is intrinsic when it “involv[es] the same principal actors, in the same roles, employing the same modus operandi”
• evidence of related acts admissible even though occurring prior or subsequent to charged offenses
• testimony regarding uncharged conduct that was part of the same fraud scheme “was properly admissible as intrinsic evidence of the same series of transactions as the charged offenses” and was outside the scope of Rule 404(b)
• testimony regarding uncharged conduct that was part of the same fraud scheme “was properly admissible as intrinsic evidence of the same series of transactions as the charged offenses” and was outside the scope of Rule 404(b)

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