Legal Opinion
United States v. Sarno
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 11, 1995No. Nos. 93-50859, 93-50860, 94-50010, 95-50270 and 50271PublishedCited by 145 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McKAY, Circuit Judge:
These appeals recount a sadly familiar tale from the Eighties: the financial looting of a federally-insured lending institution by would-be robber barons.1 The following facts are those which the jury reasonably could have found.
The architect of this particular scheme, Defendant Charles W. Knapp, controlled a suite of financial service corporations collectively identified as the “Trafalgar entities.” In the spring of 1988, Mr. Knapp was gathering capital to fund a foray into the insurance business. Defendant Anthony Sarno, who headed a financial consulting firm,…
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