United States v. Isaac Feldman

Obviously, I join the panel opinion in full. I write separately to express some concerns about our puzzling opinion in United States v. Takhalov , 827 F.3d 1307 (11th Cir.), modified on denial of reh'g , 838 F.3d 1168 (11th Cir. 2016). In Takhalov , we held that the district court committed reversible error when it failed to instruct the jury that the defendants' "[f]ailure to disclose the financial arrangement between the B-girls and the Bar, in and of itself, [was] not sufficient to convict" them of wire fraud. Id. at 1311 (first alteration in original). But our opinion sends mixed signals…