United States v. Cooper

Larry Napoleon Cooper was indicted and subsequently convicted by the district court sitting without a jury for knowingly making a false statement of a material fact in a loan application submitted to the Small Business Administration (SBA) with the purpose of in*474fluencing favorable agency action thereon, in violation of 15 U.S.C. § 645(a). His direct appeal from the judgment of conviction and concomitant 30-day sentence presents four specifications of error in the proceedings below: (1) Cooper’s written, negative responses to questions regarding the nature and number of any previous criminal…