United States v. Randall W. Sutherland

ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Randall W. Sutherland was convicted of conspiring to commit mail fraud on war veterans and their families. To perpetrate his fraud, he represented himself as a military historian, author, publisher, and physician who needed to borrow veterans’ memorabilia to write a book. R. 34. Beginning in mid-1988, Sutherland obtained membership rosters of veterans’ organizations, solicited war memorabilia from veterans and their widows, and then sold the memorabilia for his personal gain. He never wrote any book or returned any of the items, as promised. During the…