United States v. Phillip L. Segal

BEEZER, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Phillip Segal was convicted of aiding and abetting a failure to file currency transaction reports (“CTRs”), under 18 U.S.C. § 2 and 31 U.S.C. § 1058. Segal was also convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States, under 18 U.S.C'. § 371.

Segal claims that the Government elicited evidence at trial of unrelated misconduct, that he is not liable as a mere bank “customer,” and that the conspiracy conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 371 cannot be punished as a felony, since the accompanying conviction was a misdemeanor.

We affirm.

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In 1979, Segal (“appellant”) became…