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U.S. v. WHITSON

No. 96-2619.

125 F.3d 1071 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Fred G. WHITSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 17, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Rand Elden, Chief of Appeals, William Shaver (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Criminal Appellate Division, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Marcia G. Shein, Richard D. Biggs (argued), Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and ROVNER and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

In the late 1980s, Fred Whitson helped the American Comtel Corporation ("Comtel") obtain a contract to install pay telephones in Veteran's Administration ("VA") Hospitals by bribing a friend at the VA. Comtel paid Whitson more than half a million dollars during 1988, 1989 and 1990 in exchange for that assistance, and the money has been sequestered in several numbered bank accounts in the Cayman Islands ever since. In 1994, Whitson...

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