United States v. Meir Roshko

GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

After a jury trial, Meir Roshko and his wife, Irene, were both convicted for conspiring to defraud the United States by making false statements to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”), and by obstructing that agency’s proceedings, see 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1001 and 1505 (1988); subsequently, Meir was tried alone before another jury on the substantive count of making false statements to a government agency, see 18 U.S.C. § 1001, and that jury convicted him as well.

In United States v. Irene Roshko, 969 F.2d 1 (2d Cir.1992) (“Roshko I”), another panel of…