United States First Circuit

Convictions for violating and conspiring to violate the federal wire-fraud statute are affirmed, where: 1) a factfinder could rationally find the use of interstate wires here, where the electronic transfer of funds involved several states; and 2) there was sufficient evidence for a sensible factfinder to find that defendant and defendant-employer he worked for without telling insurance company paying him disability benefits, agreed on the essential nature of a wire-fraud conspiracy and this agreement is enough to form the essential nature of the plan, even if defendant-employer did not know whether the misrepresentations would be used to defraud an insurance company, the IRS, or someone else.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/01/2013
• Published 02/01/2013

Judges

• THOMPSON

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel