United States Second Circuit

In an action challenging the Attorney General's denial of citizenship to plaintiff, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where plaintiff-s conviction under 18 U.S.C. section 1344 for attempting to execute a fraudulent scheme to obtain money from a bank constituted an -aggravated felony- as defined in 8 U.S.C. section 1101(a)(43)(M)(i) and that conviction for an aggravated felony made one ineligible for naturalization under 8 U.S.C. section 1101(f)(8).

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/03/2009
• Published 12/03/2009

Judges

• LEVAL, Circuit Judge:, Before:  JACOBS, Chief Judge, LEVAL, and SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Walter Drobenko, Drobenko & Associates, P.C., Astoria, NY, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia L. Buchanan, Assistant United States Attorney (Sarah S. Normand, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Appellees.