United States v. Joseph Polichemi

DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.

This case arose out of the government’s prosecution of an elaborate financial scam, perpetrated in large part by the four defendants whose cases we consider on the government’s petition for rehearing. In our original opinion, United States v. Polichemi, 201 F.3d 858 (7th Cir.2000), we concluded that the convictions of Joseph Polichemi, Lyle “Pete” Neal, Oscar William Olson, and Charles Padilla on various counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy, and perjury, had to be overturned. Our reason was that the trial court erroneously failed to grant the…