United States v. Laurance Freed

In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit No. 17-2816 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LAURANCE H. FREED, Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. No. 13 CR 00951 — Robert M. Dow, Jr., Judge. ARGUED FEBRUARY 7, 2019 — DECIDED APRIL 22, 2019 Before BAUER, HAMILTON, and BRENNAN, Circuit Judges. BAUER, Circuit Judge. It appears that Laurance Freed did everything he could to keep his real estate business alive. Unfortunately for Freed, much of that was illegal. Freed lied to…