U.S. v. SARNO

Nos. 93-50859, 93-50860, 94-50010, 95-50270 and 50271.

73 F.3d 1470 (1995)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Anthony C. SARNO and Charles W. Knapp, Defendants-Appellants. (Two Cases). UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joseph V. NASH, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

September 22, 1995.

Filed December 11, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald M. Re, Los Angeles, California (argued); John J. Bartko, Bartko, Zankel, Tarrant & Miller, San Francisco, California (argued); Joseph V. Nash, pro se, North Las Vegas, Nevada (on the briefs), for defendants-appellants.

Carolyn J. Kubota and David Schindler, Assistant United States Attorneys, Los Angeles, California, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before McKAY, REINHARDT, and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

McKAY, Circuit Judge:

These appeals recount a sadly familiar tale from the Eighties: the financial looting of a federally-insured lending institution by would-be robber barons.1 The following facts are those which the jury reasonably could have found.

The architect of this particular scheme, Defendant Charles W. Knapp, controlled a suite of financial service corporations collectively identified as the "Trafalgar...

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