Thaddeus M. Ohrynowicz v. United States

SWYGERT, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the question of whether an order for personalized checks mailed by a bank pursuant to the opening of a new checking account is closely enough related to a fraudulent scheme using that account to support a conviction for mail fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1341. 1 We hold that it is and affirm the conviction.

Petitioner Thaddeus M. Ohrynowicz was convicted in 1970 of conspiracy and seven counts of mail fraud. The charges arose from a “check kiting” scheme in which Ohrynowicz and Robert S. Strauss conspired to defraud a number of banks in which they had…