United States v. Armand Ventura

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Defendant Armand Ventura appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, after a jury trial before William C. Conner, Judge, convicting him on one count of conspiring to defraud the Agency for International Development (“AID”) and the World Bank, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 (1976), and four counts of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343 (1976). Ventura was sentenced to four concurrent terms of eighteen months’ imprisonment on the wire fraud counts and was assessed a committed fine of $10,000 on the…