United States Second Circuit

Disqualification was not required though a trial judge owned stock in an insurance company that was among the victims of the defendant's fraud offense; court should have applied an enhancement for affecting a financial institution and deriving more than $1,000,000 in gross receipts from the offense, U.S.S.G. section 2F1.1(b)(8)(B).

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/15/2003
• Published 09/15/2003

Judges

• JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before:  NEWMAN, WINTER, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Nathaniel Z. Marmur, New York, N.Y. (Stillman & Friedman, P.C., New York, N.Y., David I. Schoen, Montgomery, Ala., on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Lauersen., Vida M. Alvy, Great Neck, N.Y. (Gail Jacobs, Great Neck, N.Y., on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant Jackson., James G. Cavoli, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York, N.Y. (James B. Comey, U.S. Atty., Gary Stein, Lisa Horwitz, Adam Siegel, Asst. U.S. Attys., New York, N.Y., on the brief), for Appellee.