United States v. Gordon L. Platt

KNOCH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Defendant-Appellant, Gordon L. Platt, was indicted in twenty-one counts, all charging violations of Title 18, U.S.C. § 1341. 1

As set out in the indictment, the proposed victims of the scheme to defraud allegedly devised by Defendant-Appellant (and others also indicted with him, with whom we are not here concerned) were holders of distressed property who would be induced to trust in the financial advice of Appellant and prospective tenants who would be induced to rent, and improve property, in reliance on representations by Appellant who concealed the fact that they…