U.S. v. SIMPSON

No. 92-2351.

995 F.2d 109 (1993)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Reid SIMPSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 28, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley W. Murphy, Asst. U.S. Atty., Peoria, IL, (argued), for U.S.

Ronald Hamm, Hamm & Hanna, Peoria, IL, (argued), for defendant-appellant.

Before CUMMINGS, EASTERBROOK and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

At the heart of this case lies a mystery: who is Gene Greene? A jury convicted Reid Simpson of filing false insurance forms with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and he claims that Gene Greene of the General Accounting Office (GAO) put him up to it as part of a covert effort to expose the potential for fraud and abuse in USDA farm insurance programs. Simpson argues on appeal that his defense of entrapment entitled him to...

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