U.S. v. KRATT

Nos. 08-5831, 08-5832.

579 F.3d 558 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Fred KRATT, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: September 2, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Karimbumkara Jayaraman, Law Offices, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellant. Timothy R. Discenza, Assistant United States Attorney, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Karimbumkara Jayaraman, Law Offices, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellant. Timothy R. Discenza, Assistant United States Attorney, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellee.

SUTTON, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which THAPAR, D.J., joined. CLAY, J. (pp. 565-67), delivered a separate opinion concurring in the judgment.


OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

Fred Kratt challenges his conviction for three counts of engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property, see 18 U.S.C. § 1957, and an $85,954 restitution order. We affirm.

I.

In June 2001, Kratt re-financed his Cessna airplane by obtaining a $301,535 loan from Bancorp South based on fraudulent income tax returns that inflated his adjusted gross income for 1999 and 2000. The bank...

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