Legal Opinion
United States v. Doris Johnson-Wilder
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 1, 1994No. 92-2677PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Claudette Grimes was the supervisor of the accounts payable department of Continental Grain Company, and had access to blank checks belonging to her employer. In October of 1988 Grimes and her friend Doris Johnson-Wilder decided to put this access to work by embarking on an illegal joint venture. Grimes, they decided, would steal a check, forge the signatures and make it out to Wilder, who would cash the check and split the proceeds with Grimes. They agreed that Grimes would get one fourth of the proceeds, and Wilder, three fourths.
They put their plan into action in…
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