United States v. Cothran

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

David Cothran pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 2. He attacks his conviction and sentence on many grounds. Finding no error, we affirm.

I

Cothran owned Capricorn Services, which sold computers. The business fell on hard times, and Cothran began defrauding his suppliers. The government maintains that the scope of his intentional fraud swept broadly; Cothran states that his initial underpayments and bad checks were accidental, and he began defrauding his suppliers at a later date.

In 1996, Cothran paid two suppliers with…