POSNER, Circuit Judge.
We have consolidated for argument and decision defendant Bownes's appeals from his sentence and from other orders issued by the district court. The primary charge against him was mail fraud arising from a "land flipping" scheme whereby he would acquire homes in a poor area at low prices and resell them to poor people at high prices, financing the sales by obtaining inflated mortgage loans through the submission of false appraisals by crooked...
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