U.S. v. ASLAN

Nos. 08-1486, 08-1678, 08-3789, 08-4136.

644 F.3d 526 (2011)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Igor ASLAN, Mihai Panaitescu, Stefan Dumitru and Adrian Fechete, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 12, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Manish S. Shah , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee in Docket No. 08-1486.

Thomas A. Gibbons , Attorney, Kreiter & Gibbons & Associates, Chicago, IL, Igor V. Aslan , Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Dix, NJ, for Defendant-Appellant in Docket No. 18-1486.

Manish S. Shah , Attorney, Stephanie Michelle Zimdahl (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee in Docket No. 08-1678, 08-3789, and 08-4136.

Beau B. Brindley (argued), Attorney, Shapiro & Brindley, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant in Docket No. 08-1678.

Joseph R. Lopez (argued), Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant in Docket No. 08-3789.

Sylvia N. Winston (argued), Attorney, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant in Docket No. 08-4136.

Before FLAUM, ROVNER, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.


ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

Confidence games are as old as a pig in a poke, but the internet has changed the scale of the con to allow schemers to reach effortlessly across oceans into the pockets of their trusting marks.1 The defendants here ran a con for two and a half years using the most efficient "poke" that technology has to offer: eBay. The confidence men (and women) in this scheme, many of...

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