Legal Opinion
United States v. Ledée
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 5, 2014No. Nos. 13-1067, 13-1078PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Appellants in this consolidated appeal are a brother and sister who were found guilty of multiple bankruptcy-related crimes designed to conceal the brother’s assets and thereby avoid his obligations to creditors. The pair assert a host of trial and sentencing errors, none of which we find meritorious. Accordingly, we affirm both siblings’ convictions and sentences.
I. Factual Background
We present the facts as the jury could have found them, reserving additional detail for our analyses of appellants’ claims.
In August 2002, Edgardo Colón Ledée, a plastic surgeon, and his…
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