United States v. John Gil

JACOBS, Circuit Judge.

John Gil appeals the judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Dearie, J.), convicting him, after a jury trial, on a variety of mail fraud counts arising out of his submission of inflated invoices on a contract for heating, ventilation and air conditioning work at offices of the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation (“OTB”). 1

It was uncontested that Gil procured from Ms subcontractors false and inflated invoices, submitted them to OTB for payment, and received payment. The defense was that the inflated subcontractor invoices…