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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