Legal Opinion
United States v. Minas Litos
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 10, 2017No. 16-2330PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge. •
The three defendants were indicted in 2012 on charges of having committed and conspired to commit wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343 & 1349, by extracting money from lenders (including Bank of America) that had financed the sale of properties owned by the defendants in Gary, Indiana. The fraud lay in the fact that the defendants had represented to Bank of America (we can ignore the other lenders, who are not affected by this litigation) that the buyers of the properties were the source of the down payments on the houses, whereas in fact the defendants were…
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