United States v. Robert E. West

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• holding that West’s authority to sign his wife’s name to mortgage documents would negate West’s intent to defraud if he was acting on his wife’s behalf with the intent to bind her to the obligations under the mortgage
• noting that the defendant’s assertion “that he was authorized, or reasonably believed that he was authorized, to sign his wife’s name on the documents ... did constitute an affirmative defense which tended to negate the government’s charge that he ‘knowingly’ submitted false documents”

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