Legal Opinion
United States v. Laboyce Kennard
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 15, 2006No. 05-12742PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
This case grows out of the intersection of two truths. One, articulated by the Apostle Paul, is that “the love of money is the root of all evil,” 1 Timothy 6:10(KJV), and the other, often attributed to P.T. Barnum, is that “[t]here’s a sucker born every minute,” see A.H. Saxon, P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man 1 (1989). Fraudulent investment schemes are likely as old as the truths reflected in those observations, but the one involved in this case has a twist. A man of the cloth defrauded more than a thousand churches and other non-profit organizations out of millions…
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