Legal Opinion
United States v. Stokes
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 13, 2016No. 15-1602PPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
From 2008 to 2012, defendant-appellant Darren Stokes sent fraudulent invoices to thousands of businesses. Each invoice appeared to be sent by a legitimate trade association and directed the business to send membership dues to one of three addresses in Massachusetts where, unbeknownst to the business, Stokes received mail. Postal inspectors intercepted mailings to these addresses. After criminal charges were leveled against Stokes in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, he moved to suppress the mailings as the product of an unreasonable…
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