United States v. Kay Wright and Leslie Wright, AKA Leslie White, Les White

How courts have described this case

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• noting that whether a defendant occupies a position of trust is assessed from the perspective of the defendant’s victims
• finding abuse of trust when the chairperson and sole director of a caretaking facility enjoyed unsupervised discretion over the disbursement of Medicaid funds intended for the benefit of its mentally disabled residents, but used those funds for lavish personal expenditures
• “[I]n connection with a fraud offense, a defendant who merely procures loans to his company does not hold a position of trust vis‐à‐vis the lenders.”
• “[W]e conclude that in the circumstances of the present case, we need not determine whether an order of restitution should be abated as a general matter, for here, retention of the restitutionary order would be a futile act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).