United States v. James Wormick, Jr.

ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.

The defendant appeals his conviction on five counts of violating 18 U.S.C. § 1341 through a mail fraud scheme designed to defraud State Farm Insurance by the submission of false automobile accident and theft claims. For the reasons below, we affirm in part and reverse in part.

I

The evidence adduced at Wormick’s trial, taken in the light most favorable to the government, indicates that Wormick was involved in an insurance fraud scheme involving at least ten persons. Wormick’s role, as a police officer in Dixmoor, Illinois, was to supply falsified police reports, for a…