Legal Opinion
United States v. Weaver
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 21, 2017No. Docket 16-3861-crPublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Per curiam
Edward Weaver appeals from a judgment of conviction entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Joan M. Azrack, Judge). Weaver was convicted of conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud, substantive counts of both, and making false statements to a government agent, based on his work at Vendstar, a company that sold valueless vending-machine business opportunities to its victims. Vendstar’s salespeople routinely lied to customers in order to convince them to purchase the machines by promising unrealistic profits and making other false claims. On appeal,…
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