United States v. John Steffen

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defining active concealment as “deceptive acts or contrivances intended to hide information, mislead, avoid suspicion, or prevent further inquiry into a material matter”
• “In reviewing the sufficiency of an indictment, we accept the government’s factual allegations as true, without reference to allegations outside the indicting document.” (quoting United States v. Farm & Home Sav. Ass’n, 932 F.2d 1256, 1259 n.3 (8th Cir. 1994))
• affirming dismissal of indictment for failure to state an offense
• discussing various schemes to defraud

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).