U.S. v. ACHIEKWELU

No. 95-5765.

112 F.3d 747 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Henry ACHIEKWELU, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 1, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Amy Adelson, Dershowitz & Eiger, P.C., New York City, for Appellant. Nicole Miller Healy, Fraud Section, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Nathan Z. Dershowitz, Dershowitz & Eiger, P.C., New York City, for Appellant. Patrick M. Donley, Fraud Section, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellee.

Before MURNAGHAN and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges, and BLACK, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge MURNAGHAN wrote the opinion, in which Judge LUTTIG and Senior Judge BLACK joined.

OPINION

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

This case is interesting and somewhat unusual, involving, as it does, the activities of someone who tried to defraud and was himself successfully defrauded by someone else. The criminal proceedings were only directed at the one whose plan produced, from his point of view, favorable results.

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