The defendant, an attorney in Dixie County Florida, was convicted of mail fraud and money laundering charges relating to two separate fraudulent schemes. One scheme involved the defendant’s conversion of funds developers gave him to hold in trust for future expenses associated with a development (River Shores Scheme). The other…
In this appeal Juanita Davenport challenged a final order of criminal forfeiture of $214,980 seized from a safety deposit box. In U.S. v. Davenport, the defendant and her codefendants were charged in the indictment with participating in a drug conspiracy. In addition, Davenport was charged with making a false statement…
The defendant business in U.S. v. Chaplin’s was a jewelry store in Atlanta from which the defendant, an employee, sold jewelry on a cash basis to persons he knew to be drug dealers. In one instance an undercover IRS agent posing as a narcotics trafficker purchased expensive jewelry in cash…
In United States v. Naranjo, the defendant’s wire fraud conviction resulted from a multi-million dollar scheme where he solicited investors for a chain of check cashing and pay-day loan stores known as the “Loan Shoppe” by offering high interest rates. The wire fraud statute Title 18 U.S.C. §1341 makes it…
It is a Federal crime to export any firearms outside the United States without of license. When two or more persons agree to commit a Federal offense and take some action in furtherance of the crime, it becomes a conspiracy and is a separate crime. Frazier was convicted in federal…