United States v. Parris

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

This prosecution targets a plan by the owners of a small business to fund the operations of the business by taking money from the corporation’s employee pension benefit plan. The jury, by general verdict, convicted defendant, one of the owners, of two offenses: a multiple object conspiracy in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 and making false statements in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1027. Now, by various post-verdict motions, each of which is examined here, defendant seeks to be sentenced for only one of the conspiracy’s objects.

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Defendant Robert Parris and…