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· 3/7/2002

United States v. Peter N. Fernandez, Iii, Peter N. Fernandez, Jr., and Kenneth K. Getty

Citations

  • 282 F.3d 500
  • 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 3591
  • 2002 WL 356748

How courts have described this case

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  • upholding convictions based on mailings that assisted in concealing “true nature of the scheme” and falsely portraying construction firm as legitimate
  • declining to find plain error in jury instructions which did not include instruction on materiality but, viewed in their entirety, “encompassed the concept of materiality”
  • explaining materiality in context of federal No. 07-1381 17 mail-fraud statutes, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1346
  • finding in the health-services fraud context that omission of an explicit reference to materiality in the jury instruction was not plain error because the instructions viewed in their entirety adequately embraced the concept of materiality
  • finding in the health-services fraud context that omission of an explicit reference to materiality in the jury instruction was not plain error because the instructions viewed in their entirety adequately embraced the concept of materiality
  • up- holding convictions based on mailings that assisted in No. 07-1621 13 concealing “true nature of the scheme” and falsely portray- ing construction firm as legitimate

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Judges: Posner, Kanne, Wood

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