TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
In a traditional check kiting scheme, a person artificially inflates a checking account balance during the "float" time that passes when a check moves between two or more banks. Check kiting (assuming the victim is a federally insured financial institution) violates the federal bank fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1344. But can one violate the statute when only one account at one bank is used in the scheme? The answer is "yes."
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