Legal Opinion
United States v. Lutz
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 9, 1980No. Nos. 78-2969, 78-2978, 78-2970 and 78-3008PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge:
Lutz, Stewart, White, and Zitek appeal their convictions for mail fraud and wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343, and 2. We affirm.
I
In October 1975, Stewart and Lutz organized Nation-Wide Funding, Inc. (NationWide), a loan-brokerage firm whose advertised goal was to find financial backing for high-risk borrowers. The evidence at trial established' that Nation-Wide personnel obtained thousands of dollars in advance fees from prospective borrowers by promising instant or virtually guaranteed funding for the borrowers’ projects, even though the Nation-Wide…
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