United States v. Onyiego

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

Yophes Onyiego, Isaac Biegon, and Mahmood Lodhi were among six people convicted for carrying out a conspiracy to traffic in stolen airline tickets. Lodhi was allegedly the mastermind behind the conspiracy. Biegon and Onyiego allegedly served as ticket brokers — selling and using the false tickets. Each defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his conviction. Specifically, Bieg-on challenges the government’s use of the price written and filled in on the blank airline tickets by a co-conspirator as evidence of the “face value” of those…