BOSCO v. SERHANT

Nos. 86-2918, 86-2926, 86-2936, 86-2937, 86-3006, 86-3008, 86-3064.

836 F.2d 271 (1987)

Anthony J. BOSCO, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Robert B. SERHANT, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 2, 1987.

Rehearing Denied January 8, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sharone Swarsensky Bilow, Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Eiger, P.C., Edward Joyce, Joyce & Kubasiak, P.C., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jerrold E. Salzman, Freeman Freeman & Salzman, P.C., George B. Collins, Jody Rosenbaum, Collins, Uscian & Bertelle, Chicago, Ill., Robert B. Serhant, Oak Brook, Ill., James B. Linn, Stuart B. Dubin, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before WOOD and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This unwieldy commodities-fraud case, rich in parties and issues, comes to us after a five-week trial that produced a record of several thousand pages. However, the essential facts are simple (and we shall make them even simpler, to the extent this can be done without distorting our analysis), and many of the issues require little or even no discussion.

At the heart of the fraud was Robert Serhant, who between 1980 and 1982 offered investors...

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