U.S. v. CORNIER-ORTIZ

No. 03-1022.

361 F.3d 29 (2004)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Edwin Rafael CORNIER-ORTIZ, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 17, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maritza Gonzalez de Miranda, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom H.S. Garcia, United States Attorney, Sonia I. Torres, Assistant United States Attorney, and Thomas F. Klumper, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.

David W. Roman, with whom Brown & Ubarri was on brief, for appellant.

Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

This public corruption case from Puerto Rico resulted in the conviction, for misuse of federal housing monies from 1996 to 2001, of the sole defendant, Edwin Rafael Cornier-Ortiz. Cornier was the general manager, sequentially, of two private for-profit management corporations, CORA and ERCO. Cornier worked with others — including a HUD division director, a contract employee of the Puerto Rico Public Housing Authority, and their relatives...

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