United States v. Whiteford

OPINION OF THE COURT

SCIRICA, Circuit Judge.

Curtis Whiteford and Michael Wheeler were officers in the United States Army Reserve who were deployed to Iraq in 2003 to work for the Coalition Provisional Authority. Both defendants were convicted of conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 371, for participating in a bid-rigging scheme that involved directing millions of dollars in contracts to companies owned by Philip Bloom, an American businessman. White-ford and Wheeler raise the following claims on appeal: (1) insufficiency of the evidence to establish each defendant’s participation in the conspiracy;…