United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's wire fraud and bid rigging convictions are affirmed where: 1) defendant's conduct did not need to violate a rule or regulation of the E-Rate educational funding program in order to be fraudulent; 2) even accepting that her ultimate motives were laudable, defendant concealed material facts from the federal government in an attempt to induce it to fund her projects; and 3) the evidence at trial easily supported the jury's finding that defendant participated in multiple bid-rigging conspiracies.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/05/2009
• Decided 01/22/2010
• Published 01/22/2010

Judges

• Before PAMELA ANN RYMER and A. WALLACE TASHIMA, Circuit Judges, and LYNN S. ADELMAN,District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Phillip H. Stillman, Cardiff, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Adam D. Hirsch, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the plaintiff-appellee.