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U.S. v. PATASNIK

Nos. 752, 584, Dockets 95-1063(L), 95-1189(CON).

89 F.3d 63 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Michael S. PATASNIK and James Cecere, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 11, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew P. Gaillard, Assistant United States Attorney, New Haven, CT (Christopher F. Droney, United States Attorney for the District, New Haven, CT, on the brief), for Appellee United States of America.

John T. Walkley, Trumbull, CT, for Defendant-Appellant Michael Patasnik.

Michael O. Sheehan, Assistant Federal Public Defender, New Haven, CT (Thomas G. Dennis, Federal Public Defender, New Haven, CT, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant James Cecere.

Before OAKES, McLAUGHLIN and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.

JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

For almost two years, Michael Patasnik and James Cecere conducted an advance fee loan scam, pocketing over $800,000. The scheme was simple. Patasnik and Cecere held themselves out as lenders or loan brokers who could save small businesses on the brink of disaster. Targeting businesses that needed large and urgent cash infusions and could not arrange financing elsewhere, Patasnik and Cecere falsely represented that they managed a sort of venture...

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