Legal Opinion
United States v. James Catton
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 11, 1996No. 95-2622PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
A jury convicted James Catton of submitting five false claims to the Federal Crop Insurance' Corporation, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 287, and the judge sentenced him to 21 months in prison. Section 287 makes it a crime to file a “false, fictitious, or fraudulent claim” with' a federal agency. Unlike 18 U.S.C. § 1001, which makes it a crime to file a false statement with a federal agency, section 287 makes the imposition of a prison sentence on a convicted defendant mandatory, perhaps because a claim, as distinct from a statement, always seeks money. At all events, this is…
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