United States v. Karl Popovski

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Karl Popovski pleaded guilty to wire fraud. 18 U.S.C. § 1343. The criminal scheme entailed obtaining credit-card or debit-card numbers from abroad, encoding them onto blank cards, and using those cards to withdraw money from automated teller machines. Popovski, one of a large group directed by Gheorgui Martov that implemented this scheme, was responsible for more than 1,000 account numbers but planned to use 800 of them in Peru. The district judge disregarded those 800 numbers and calculated an intended loss based on actual or planned transactions in the United…