United States v. Carlos Rodriguez

BEAM, Circuit Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

Carlos Rodriguez and Michael Marcov appeal the sentences and restitutional requirements imposed by the district court 1 following their guilty pleas to wire fraud. Rodriguez and Marcov, and many others, participated in a scheme to obtain money from generally elderly victims in the Dubuque, Iowa, area and elsewhere by calling and telling them that relatives in the Dominican Republic had been jailed and that the relatives needed to wire money to get them out. Victims wired money to a person at a location provided by the callers. The criminal organization…