Legal Opinion
United States v. Rocheford
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 14, 2018No. 17-1503PPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARRON, Circuit Judge.
Alba Pena ("Pena") and Indranis Rocheford ("Rocheford") are sisters, who in 2017 *595 were each convicted of multiple counts of wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343 . They had been charged with participating, along with their mother, Patria Zuniga ("Zuniga"), in a scheme to defraud immigrants by falsely promising them that Zuniga would, in return for payment, secure valid immigration status documents for them. We now reject the challenges to the convictions that each sister brings on appeal, as well as the challenge that Rocheford brings to her sentence. We thus…
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