Charles G. Rhodes v. United States

SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

Charles G. Rhodes, a real estate operator, was convicted of knowingly filing false statements and reports with the Huntington Federal Savings and Loan Association, in order to obtain a $20,000 loan.1 The false statements of which he was accused consisted of a deed of trust and note given as security for the loan, and purportedly signed by Rhodes’ clients, Glenn C. Dowell and Norma L. Dow-ell, his wife. Rhodes made it appear on the deed of trust that he took the acknowledgment thereto of the Dowell’s signatures. Actually, according to the testimony, Rhodes himself signed…