UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jerald WILSON and Sharon Murff, Defendants-Appellants

MANION, Circuit Judge.

Jerald Wilson and Sharon Murff appeal their convictions of various federal offenses, most notably mail fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1341, arising from Wilson’s scheme to defraud the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) by filing false unemployment compensation claims. (The jury also convicted Wilson and Murff of credit card fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1029(a)(2), convictions not at issue in this appeal.) Much of the government’s evidence consisted of records obtained from the IDES. Wilson and Murff contend the district court should have excluded those records because they were…