Lewis v. Telephone Employees Credit Union

WIGGINS, Circuit Judge:

Two elderly women, Jean P. MacLeod and Margaret Lewis, were separately swindled out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by telephone fraud artists who persuaded the women to write numerous personal, cashier’s, and teller’s checks, purportedly for investment in valuable coins and gems. MacLeod’s estate and Lewis each filed suit against the check cashing company that cashed most of the checks, the principals of a suspended corporation that received the proceeds of some of the checks, and several Doe defendants, charging them with RICO violations and fraud. Both plaintiffs…