United States v. Lamar Chapman, III

WOOD, Chief Judge.

Donell Thomas and Lamar Chapman III were convicted of multiple counts of wire fraud after a jury trial. The jury found that they were part of a scheme to fleece real estate lenders by concocting multiple false sales of the same homes and using the loan proceeds from the later transactions to pay off the earlier lenders. Thomas was also convicted of aggravated identity theft for using a real estate investor’s identity without permission to craft a phony sale of a home that the victim never owned.

Thomas and Chapman both challenge the sufficiency of the evidence underlying…