Legal Opinion
United States v. George I. Benny
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 15, 1986No. 84-1074PublishedCited by 155 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TANG, Circuit Judge:
Appellant George Benny was convicted after a jury trial of twenty-one counts of mail fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1341-42 and one count of racketeering under RICO provision 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c). The indictment arose out of two related and one unrelated schemes to defraud institutional lenders in the financing of a northern California apartment building and a planned community to be built on a Nevada ranch. Benny appeals his convictions on a number of grounds. First, he alleges that the RICO conviction must be reversed because the “defendant” and the “enterprise” cannot be the…
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