United States v. Edwin Seda

JON 0. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal by the Government in a criminal case raises the issue whether an indictment may simultaneously charge bank *780fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1344 (1988), and making false statements to a bank in connection with loan applications, in violation of 18 U.S.C: § 1014 (1988). The issue arises on the Government’s appeal from the February 13, 1992, order of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Louis L. Stanton, Judge), ruling that the indictment of defendant Edwin Seda was multiplicitous and requiring the prosecution to elect between the…