United States v. Tyrone Powe, United States of America v. Robert Juarez

Tyrone Powe and Robert Juarez appeal their convictions for conspiracy in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 and theft of funds from a government project in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 666. Powe also appeals his conviction for providing a false statement on a tax return in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1). We affirm. 1

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In 1986, Tyrone Powe, Robert Juarez, Daniel Garner and Virgil Bartlett, all deputy sheriffs with the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department, were promoted to the elite Major Violators Two Crew (“Majors II”), an anti-narcotics squad assigned to investigate large-scale violations and to…