FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
From the fall of 1985 through the spring of 1988, Danny Short and David Bittis bought junk cars at local auctions, but instead of restoring the cars, they used their vehicle identification numbers (VINs) in a scheme to sell stolen cars without getting caught. They, or car thief George Van Trece, stole new cars of the same model as the salvaged cars, and then Short and Bittis replaced the stolen cars' VINs with those of the salvaged cars. After...
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