Legal Opinion
United States v. Serrano
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 1, 1989No. Nos. 85-1912, 85-1913, 88-1268 and 86-1164PublishedCited by 159 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.
Miguel A. Serrano, Juan Luis Boscio, and William Stamps appeal from their convictions of mail and wire fraud. 18'U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343 (1982). We affirm the convictions of Serrano and Boscio, but vacate Stamps’s conviction and remand his case for a new trial.
I. BACKGROUND
The defendants’ convictions arose out of a series of complex financial transactions involving a number of entities in Puerto Rico. Both Serrano and Stamps worked for Shearson/American Express of Puerto Rico, Inc. (“Shearson”), a subsidiary of Shearson/American Express, Inc. Serrano was a broker…
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