Legal Opinion
United States v. Rex K. Degeorge, AKA Rex Karageorge Degeorge, Rex Karageorgiou Degeorge, Angelos George Karageorgiou, Angelos George Karageorge
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 30, 2004No. 16-73801PublishedCited by 98 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge:
Rex K. DeGeorge appeals his conviction and sentence following a month-long jury trial for conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, and perjury. The government alleged that DeGeorge participated in a scheme to defraud by purchasing a yacht, inflating its value through a series of sham transactions, obtaining insurance on the yacht at the inflated value, scuttling it off the coast of Italy, and attempting to collect the insurance proceeds, in part by lying about the cause of the sinking during civil litiga tion with the yacht’s insurer. We affirm the convictions but…
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