U.S. v. DEGEORGE

No. 02-50365.

380 F.3d 1203 (2004)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rex K. DeGEORGE, aka Rex Karageorge DeGeorge, Rex Karageorgiou DeGeorge, Angelos George Karageorgiou, Angelos George Karageorge, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 30, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Kopeny, William J. Kopeny & Associates, Irvine, CA, for the defendant-appellant.

Eileen M. Decker, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Before: D.W. NELSON, GIBSON, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.


GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge:

Rex K. DeGeorge appeals his conviction and sentence following a month-long jury trial for conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, and perjury. The government alleged that DeGeorge participated in a scheme to defraud by purchasing a yacht, inflating its value through a series of sham transactions, obtaining insurance on the yacht at the inflated value, scuttling it off the coast of Italy, and attempting to collect the insurance proceeds, in...

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