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· 2/28/1996

United States v. Willia Allen

Citations

  • 76 F.3d 1348
  • 1996 WL 82627

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “actions taken to avoid detection, or to lull the fraud victim into complacency” are in furtherance of the fraud for the purpose of the wire fraud statute
  • holding that actions designed to avoid detection after the defendants had control over the money produced by the fraud were in furtherance of the fraud under the mail fraud statute
  • holding that actions designed to avoid detection after the defendants had control over the money produced by the fraud were in furtherance of the fraud under the mail fraud statute
  • concluding that fraud scheme \produces proceeds at the latest when the scheme succeeds in disgorging the funds from the vic- tim and placing them into the control of the perpetrators\
  • bank was defrauded, at least temporarily, when cashier's checks were fraudulently drawn on bank's account, even though bank was reimbursed in full by holding company at end of month
  • “we review only for plain error and we find none.”

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Judges: Reavley, Higginbotham, Barksdale

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