United States Ninth Circuit

Assuming that the government was required to prove that the theft had some effect on a program receiving federal funds, for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. section 666, it was more than satisfied where a commonwealth's Secretary of Finance stole from federal funds within his control.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/01/2002
• Decided 04/30/2003
• Published 04/30/2003

Judges

• SCHROEDER, Chief Judge., Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, ALARCÓN and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce Berline, Garapan, Saipan, MI, for the defendant-appellant., John J. Rice, United States Attorney of the Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan, MI, for the plaintiff-appellee.