United States First Circuit

Restitution order after conviction for wire fraud is affirmed where the government had the authority to garnish the sale proceeds of a house that a debtor had attempted to exempt from the reach of creditors in a Chapter 7 federal bankruptcy proceeding.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/07/2007
• Published 08/07/2007

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, LYNCH and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Leonard A. Frisoli, with whom Zaheer Samee was on brief for appellant., William R. Moorman, Jr., with whom Joseph J. Koltun and Craig & Macauley Professional Corporation were on brief for Board of Trustees of the Public School Teachers' Pension & Retirement Fund of Chicago.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher R. Donato, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, was on brief for appellee.