United States Ninth Circuit

A conviction for conspiracy to submit false claims to the U.S. and making false statements arising from defendant's submission of applications for federal disaster benefits for residents of an island in the Marianas Islands is affirmed as the false statement statute does not require the government to prove which particular agency within the executive branch maintains jurisdiction over the matter involving the submission of false statements, and sufficient evidence existed to support defendant's fraud conviction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/08/2007
• Decided 09/06/2007
• Published 09/06/2007

Judges

• TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ARTHUR L. ALARCÓN, MARSHA S. BERZON, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy E. Moran, Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney, Districts of Guam and the NMI, Saipan, MP, for the plaintiff-appellee., George Anthony Long, San Jose, Saipan, MP, for the defendant-appellant.