Legal Opinion
United States v. Brooks
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 16, 1997No. 95-5728, 95-5729, 95-5730, 95-5790, 95-5803 and 95-5804PublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge MURNAGHAN and Judge MOTZ joined.
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
This ease requires us to interpret for the first time the $1 million jurisdictional amount requirement of 18 U.S.C. § 1031(a), criminalizing “major fraud” against the United States.
Defendants Edwin Brooks, his sons John and Stephen Brooks, and their company, B & D Electric Supply, Inc., were charged with several crimes in relation to two subcontracts to provide electrical components to prime contractors engaged…
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