Legal Opinion
United States v. John T. Burns, III
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 12, 2016No. 15-2824PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
John Bums made fraudulent misrepresentations when soliciting investments for his employer, USA Retirement Services (“USARMS”). Burns told investors that he had experience managing investments and that he had personally invested in *683USARMS’s promissory notes. His statements were false. Moreover, without Burns’s knowledge, the investment opportunity was fraudulent. USARMS’s owners were operating a Ponzi scheme.
With USARMS’s owners out of the picture for various reasons, the government filed a superseding indictment against Burns. The government alleged that Burns committed…
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