UNITED STATES v. SAWYER

No. 84-5677.

799 F.2d 1494 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Steven SAWYER, Harvey M. Bloch, Allen C. Leavitt, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 24, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan Z. Dershowitz, Dershowitz & Eiger, P.C., New York City, for Sawyer.

Leon Kellner, U.S. Atty., Miami, Fla., Barry D. Goldman and Lucy L. Thomson, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Fraud Section, Crim. Div., Washington, D.C., for U.S.

Sheryl J. Lowenthal, Coral Gables, Fla. (Court-appointed), for Leavitt.

Irving P. Seidman, New York City, and Fred A. Schwartz, Entin, Schwartz, Barbakoff & Schwartz, North Miami Beach, Fla., for Bloch.

Before FAY and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.


CORRECTED OPINION.

PER CURIAM:

This case arises out of a "boiler room"1 operation at Stanford Management Corporation (SMC), a Hallandale, Florida based commodity pool operator and trading advisor. Appellants Steven J. Sawyer, a principal of SMC, and Alan C. Leavitt, an SMC salesman, were convicted after a jury trial on eleven counts of mail and wire fraud, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341...

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