U.S. v. CASSIERE

Nos. 92-2073, 92-2074 and 92-2182.

4 F.3d 1006 (1993)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Joseph N. CASSIERE, Defendant, Appellant. UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Janet M. PEZZULLO, Defendant, Appellant. UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Janet DOLBER, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Mann with whom Mann & Mitchell, Providence, RI, was on brief, for defendant, appellant Joseph Cassiere.

John A. MacFadyen, Providence, RI, for appellant Janet M. Pezzullo.

Kenneth J. Fishman with whom Peter Charles Horstmann, Susan J. Naughton and Bailey, Fishman & Leonard, Boston, MA, were on brief, for defendant, appellant Janet Dolber.

Margaret R. Hinkle, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom A. John Pappalardo, U.S. Atty., Boston, MA, was on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and CYR, Circuit Judge.


FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

In these consolidated appeals the three defendants challenge their convictions of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit that offense on various grounds. The fraud involved an intricate and sophisticated scheme involving a technique known as a "land flip," under which real property is purchased for a low price, immediately resold at a much higher price to a straw or fictitious buyer, and the higher resale price is used as the basis for...

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