Legal Opinion
United States v. Richard William Peterson
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 10, 2012No. 10-15527, 10-15536PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAY, Circuit Judge:
This criminal case involves sophisticated financial structuring through the interplay of related corporate subsidiaries in the context of the insurance business. While such financial structuring is not inherently improper, here the two Appellants, William Allen Broughton (“Broughton”) and Richard William Peterson (“Peterson”), were convicted of conducting a modern-day financial shell game in which they falsified financial statements, exchanged paper ownership over non-extant fraudulent assets, and collected insurance premiums and monthly payments from unwitting innocents. 1…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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