United States v. Atwood

MEMORANDUM and ORDER

SHAPIRO, District Judge.

In this criminal prosecution, the government has charged defendant Blake Atwood in a sixteen-count indictment with violating the United States Code’s prohibitions against mail fraud (18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1342; Counts 1-3, 12-16), making fraudulent statements or representations to government departments or agencies (18 U.S.C. § 1001; Counts 4-10), and knowingly transmitting a forged writing for the purpose of defrauding the United States (18 U.S.C. § 494; Count 11). Defendant, when the Vice-President of Damascus Hosiery Mills, Inc. (“Damascus”), a…