Cohen v. United States

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

YOUNG, District Judge.

Robert Cohen (“Cohen”) was convicted on July 8,1993, of one count of conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 371, seven counts of bank fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1344, and two counts of money laundering under 18 U.S.C. § 1957. 1

At trial, the government proved that Cohen, James- Smith (“Smith”), Richard Man-gone (“Mangone”), and Ambrose Devaney (“Devaney”) (collectively the “Defendants”) fraudulently obtained tens of millions of dollars in real estate loans from the Barnstable Community Federal Credit Union (“Barnstable”) and the Digital Employees Federal Credit…