United States v. Robert Allen Johnson, Roy Maxwell Lister and Ira Hill, Jr., Defendants

KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

The appellants, Ira Hill, Jr., Roy Lister and Robert Johnson, were indicted on one count of conspiracy to submit false statements to a federal agency and eleven counts of submitting false statements and documents to federal agencies in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001. A jury found all three appellants guilty of conspiracy. Additionally, Hill was convicted of eight of the eleven counts of submitting false statements and documents, Johnson of five, and Lister of four.

The convictions arose out of Hill’s attempt to sell various businesses by financing the sales through loans…