United States Eleventh Circuit

Under 20 USC 1097(a), "failure to refund" student loans and Pell grants is an independent ground for criminal liability, but the tort of conversion is not an element of a failure to refund crime.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/18/2001
• Published 12/18/2001

Judges

• HULL, Circuit Judge:, Before ANDERSON, Chief Judge, and HULL and FAY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Curtis Fallgatter, Jacksonville, FL, for Defendant-Appellant., David Paul Rhodes, Tamra Phipps, Tampa, FL, Peggy Morris Ronca, Asst. U.S. Atty., Jacksonville, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.