United States Seventh Circuit

Convictions and sentences for mail fraud stemming from a scheme to fraudulently collect insurance money are affirmed where: 1) the crime/fraud exception applied to overcome attorney-client privilege; 2) the trial court did not err in refusing to instruct the jury on certain defenses; 3) the district court did not err in denying an evidentiary hearing on improper jury statements since the comments were innocuous; and 4) the court correctly calculated the amount of loss during sentencing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/25/2007
• Published 01/25/2007

Judges

• MANION, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and CUDAHY and MANION, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Edmund E. Chang, Clay M. West (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., James D. Tunick (argued), Nishay K. Sanan (argued), Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.