Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert Coffman, Jerry Beller, and Thresher T. Rippey
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 19, 1996No. 95-3217, 95-3909 & 95-3995PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The appellants, Beller, Coffman, and Rip-pey, along with two other persons, were convicted by a jury of six counts of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, and were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 13 to 18 months. The statute forbids the use of the telephone or other modes of transmission by wire for the purpose of executing a “scheme or artifice to defraud.” (The mail-fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1341, is similar, except that the method of execution is the mail rather than transmission by wire.) Here is the scheme the government proved: On May 9, 1989,…
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