U.S. v. BURDI

No. 04-2340.

414 F.3d 216 (2005)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Louis H. BURDI, a/k/a Lewis Trudy, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 15, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward S. MacColl, with whom Thompson, Bull, Furey, Bass & MacColl, LLC, P.A., was on brief, for appellant.

Margaret D. McGaughey, Appellate Chief, with whom Paula D. Silsby, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, CYR, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.


HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Louis H. Burdi pleaded guilty to mail fraud, see 18 U.S.C. § 1341, and now appeals his sentence. We affirm.

In July 1999, Burdi, then living in California, contacted Manford Zorn, a Maine resident, to negotiate the purchase of a watch that Zorn had listed on an auction web site. Burdi offered $14,000 for the watch and Zorn accepted the offer. Burdi mailed Zorn what he knew to be a counterfeit cashier's check in the amount...

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