United States v. Kathryn Garten

MANION, Circuit Judge.

Following a four-day trial, a jury convicted Kathryn Garten of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in the conduct of telemarketing, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1349, 2326(1). The district court then sentenced Garten to 168 months in prison and a five-year term of supervised release, and ordered her to pay $909,278 in restitution. Garten appeals, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence, the admission of testimony that a co-conspirator had pleaded guilty to the same offense, a comment made by the district court judge at trial, and the calculation of the loss for…