United States v. Susan Carol Briggs

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

Susan Briggs stole over $5 million dollars from her employers by initiating wire transfers from their accounts to hers and others’. She pled guilty in 1986 to charges of bank fraud and transportation of stolen money and was sentenced to a total of thirty years’ imprisonment. Subsequently, in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, she challenged the bank fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1344) conviction, arguing that her plea was not knowing and voluntary because her criminal acts did not constitute bank fraud. Briggs’ motion was denied, and she appealed. She also requests resentencing on the…