Legal Opinion
United States v. Burdi
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 15, 2005No. 04-2340PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
Louis H. Burdi pleaded guilty to mail fraud, see 18 U.S.C. § 1341, and now appeals his sentence. We affirm.
In July 1999, Burdi, then living in California, contacted Manford Zorn, a Maine resident, to negotiate the purchase of a watch that Zorn had listed on an auction web site. Burdi offered $14,000 for the watch and Zorn accepted the offer. Burdi mailed Zorn what he knew to be a counterfeit cashier’s check in the amount of $14,000, and Zorn shipped the watch to Burdi’s California address. As it turns out, this transaction was just one of several similar fraudulent…
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