People v. Paglione

Opinion by

JUDGE BERGER

{1 Defendant, Anthony Louis Paglione, appeals the judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of theft of twenty thousand dollars or more. We affirm. ©

I. Background

T2 Defendant is a mortgage broker and banker. In November 2005, defendant helped the victim refinance his house to obtain cash needed to purchase a second house, which he intended to use as a rental property.

{3 In March 2006, the victim took out a home equity loan on the rental property to pay down his mortgage on his primary resi-denee so that his mortgage Hability would be…