State v. LaRoche

OPINION

BOURCIER, Justice.

The defendant, David LaRoche (LaRoche), appeals from his judgment of conviction on two counts of obtaining money by false pretenses 1 and three counts of conspiracy to obtain money by false pretenses. 2 He had been charged by indictment with having defrauded two Rhode Island credit unions by using other parties as frontmen to take out loans in their names from the credit union institutions from which LaRoche had previously borrowed funds and had all but exhausted his personal borrowing limits. The indictment conspiracy counts were based on LaRoche’s agreements with…