Legal Opinion
United States v. Linda K. Frykholm, Intervening Third-Party Claimant: Cotswold Trading Company, Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 25, 2004No. 03-1990PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Linda Frykholm must have the tongue of an angel, though she has the morals of a fiend. She persuaded people to invest $15 million in a get-rich-quick scheme, even though the promises she made were transparently too good to be true (100% return in a month) and she had no means to back her promises. Her only relevant credential was a 1994 conviction for theft and forgery, which she did not tout; her “business address” was a mail drop; routine inquiry would have disclosed that the corporations through which she purported to do business did not exist and that Illinois…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Swift v. TysonSupreme Court of the United States · 1842
- United States v. Lawrence W. Lavin Wmot Enterprises, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1991
- United States v. Beverly J. Ramsey, Michael J. Marshall, Stuart A. McCreary and James Joseph O'DOnnellCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1986
- United States v. Linda FrykholmCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2001
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