Mohammed Ibrahim Kandiel A/K/A Jeff Soun Howard v. United States

On August 30, 1990, Mohammed Ibrahim Kandiel, filed a motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1988) to vacate, set aside, or correct a sentence of 42 months’ imprisonment that he received on August 27, 1987, for numerous convictions. The district court denied Kandiel’s section 2255 motion and Kandiel appeals. We affirm the. district court’s denial of post-conviction relief.

I. BACKGROUND

Kandiel was convicted of thirteen counts of various firearms offenses in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5); 18 U.S.C.App. § 1202(a)(5); 26 U.S.C. §§ 5861, 5871; making false statements in applications for…