Legal Opinion
United States v. Thomas Philpot
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 22, 2013No. 13-1465PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Thomas Philpot, the. former Clerk of Lake County, Indiana, took approximately $25,000 in incentive payments from a federally funded child-support fund without the required approval of the county fiscal body. He was charged with three counts of mail fraud and two counts of theft from a federally funded program. A jury convicted Philpot on all counts — although the district court later acquitted him oh two of them — and the court sentenced Philpot to eighteen months in. prison. Philpot now appeals his conviction and .his sentence, arguing that he should be acquitted on the…
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