United States v. Harry Herbert Wagner, Jr.

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• holding that “‘concealing’ property encompasses actions designed to hinder, delay, or otherwise obstruct the ability of a trustee to account for and distribute the debtor’s estate”
• addressing “concealment” in the context of affirming debtor’s criminal conviction for fraudulently concealing property from a bankruptcy trustee, and citing United States v. Turner with approval
• looking to analy- sis of the mail and wire fraud statutes in holding that actual reliance on the scheme to defraud is not an essential element of the crime
• “§ 152 is a congressional attempt to cover all of the possible methods by which a debtor . . . may attempt to defeat the intent and effect of the bankruptcy law through any type of effort to keep assets from being equitably distributed among creditors.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).