U.S. v. MORRIS

Nos. 94-2740, 94-2741.

80 F.3d 1151 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edward L. MORRIS and Steven M. Gardner, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 2, 1996.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied May 1, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce E. Reppert (argued), Suzanne M. Wissmann, Office of U.S. Atty., Criminal Division, Fairview Heights, IL, for U.S.

J. William Lucco, Lucco, Brown & Mudge, Edwardsville, IL, Sheldon T. Zenner, Ted S. Helwig, Robert K. Niewijk (argued), Katten, Muchin & Zavis, Chicago, IL, Samuel C. Ebling, St. Louis, MO, for Edward L. Morris.

David H. Baris, Victor Simon, Kennedy & Baris, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for American Association of Bank Directors.

Steven S. Zaleznick, Deborah M. Zuckerman, Dorothy Siemon, American Association of Retired Persons, Washington, DC, for American Association of Retired Persons.

David M. Fahrenkamp, Edwardsville, IL, Michael Dwyer (argued), Office of the Federal Public Defender, Lincoln, NE, for Steven M. Gardner.

Before CUMMINGS, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


IIANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

The defendants in this mail and wire fraud prosecution are former officers of Germania Bank, a St. Louis-based savings and loan association. After a lengthy trial, a jury convicted the bank's former chief executive officer, Edward L. Morris, and its former chief operating officer, Steven M. Gardner, on two counts of mail (18 U.S.C. § 1341) and one count of wire fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1343) in connection with Germania's $10...

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