United States v. Michael Tobin, Ralph Reda, Dorothy Morse, A/K/A Dottie, and Marsha Morse

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

Michael Tobin, Ralph Reda, Dorothy Morse, and Marsha Morse thought that they were selling two stolen bronze statues to a shady art dealer. They did not know their “customer” was an FBI agent. At the time they negotiated the sale, neither they nor their “customer” realized that the more expensive statue they were selling was a fake. After a jury heard these and other facts, it convicted Tobin and the Morses of conspiracy to receive, conceal, store, sell and dispose of merchandise and goods which were moving and constituted interstate commerce; and of receiving,…