Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert L. Tucker, Deborah Bell, and Michael Ball
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 5, 1985No. 83-1438, 83-1439 and 83-1444PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Michael Ball, Deborah Bell, and Robert Tucker were tried together for wire fraud (see 18 U.S.C. § 1343) and for submitting false statements to a federally insured bank (18 U.S.C. § 1014); were convicted by a jury; and were sentenced to prison terms of 9 months (Ball), 15 months (Tucker), and 2 years (Bell), plus periods of probation and, in the case of Bell and Tucker, were also ordered to make restitution of $5 million, subject to certain conditions. All three defendants appeal, raising a variety of questions.
The scheme charged by the government worked as follows. Bell,…
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- Michael McCray v. Robert AbramsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1984
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