Legal Opinion
United States v. Cooks
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 24, 2009No. 07-11151PublishedCited by 437 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:
Vernon Cooks, Jr. (“Cooks”) appeals his conviction and sentence for seven counts of wire fraud, one count of bank fraud, and six counts of money laundering. Finding no reversible error in his conviction and sentence, we affirm.
I
Cooks was convicted of being the mastermind behind an ingenious but misguided scheme to cheat mortgage lenders by fraudulently obtaining house mortgage loans. In most of the accused transactions the documentary evidence and trial testimony show that Cooks followed the same basic pattern. For each transaction, Cooks first recruited an…
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