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U.S. v. PETERSON

No. 99-20165.

244 F.3d 385 (2001)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Phillip S. PETERSON, Theodore F. Clark, Sandra Lynn Holick, and Debra Wills O'Keefe, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 8, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffery Alan Babcock (argued), James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Ray Christopher Goldsmith (argued), Houston, TX, for Phillip S. Peterson.

Thomas Donald Moran (argued), Schneider & McKinney, Houston, TX, for Theodore F. Clark.

Rosa Alexander Eliades (argued), Houston, TX, for Sandra Lynn Holick.

John Richard Donahue, Waco, TX, for Debra Wills O'Keefe.

Before DUHE' and PARKER, Circuit Judges, and LINDSAY, District Judge.

LINDSAY, District Judge:

I. BACKGROUND AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

This case involves a telemarketing operation called American Land Liquidators ("ALL"), which solicited fees from landowners to advertise their land for sale and put them together with buyers. ALL collected more than $9,000,000 in fees from about 27,000 property owners, between June 1992 and May 1995, when the business was shut down by the government investigation. It spent less than 3% of the...

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