United States v. Robert S. Falcone, Sandra S. Falcone

We took this case en banc 1 to reconsider our holding in United States v. Hope, 861 F.2d 1574 (11th Cir.1988). In Hope, we held that in order for the government to establish that a defendant conspired to commit an “offense against the United States” in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 (1988), 2 the prosecution must allege and prove that the defendant conspired to injure the United States or one of its agencies. In the case at hand, the Government charged, and proved, that the defendants conspired to commit the following offenses against the United States: the violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1014, 3…