United States Fourth Circuit

Even absent an independent duty to disclose material information, misleading or deceitful conduct designed to conceal material information from a financial institution violates 18 USC 1334, because the statute proscribes any "scheme or artifice... to defraud."

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/03/2000
• Published 11/03/2000

Judges

• Before LUTTIG and MOTZ, Circuit Judges, and GODBOLD, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Walter Estes Dellinger, III, O'Melveny & Myers, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Dale Preston Kelberman, Assistant United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Brian D. Boyle, Jonathan D. Hacker, O'Melveny & Myers, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Lynne A. Battaglia, United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.