U.S. v. DOHERTY

Nos. 91-3291, 91-3352.

969 F.2d 425 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. Patrick J. DOHERTY, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 24, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Santelle (argued), Chris R. Larsen, Asst. U.S. Attys., John E. Fryatt, U.S. Atty., Daniel T. Flaherty, and Charles Guadagnino, Office of the U.S. Atty., Milwaukee, Wis., for the U.S.

Joseph F. Owens (argued), Arthur & Owens, New Berlin, Wis., for Patrick J. Doherty.

Before FLAUM and KANNE, Circuit Judges, and SHABAZ, District Judge.


FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

In late 1987 Patrick J. Doherty, virtually broke but eager to invest in a stock market depressed by the crash of October 1987, engaged in a "check kiting" scheme to generate some investment capital by artificially inflating his checking account balance. The scheme worked as follows: Doherty maintained two checking accounts, one at the M & I Marshall & Ilsley Bank of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (M & I) and the other at the Suburban State...

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