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U.S. v. FARANO

Nos. 12-3007, 12-3178, 12-3180, 12-3276.

749 F.3d 658 (2014)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JOHN FARANO, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 18, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian P. Netols , Jason A. Yonan , Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Michael D. Ettinger , Ettinger, Besbekos & Schroeder, Palos Heights, IL, Marc W. Martin , Mare Martin, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Robert Brunt, John Farano, Charles Murphy, and Tracey Scullark were charged with mail and wire fraud and Brunt and Scullark also with money laundering and Farano also with theft of federal government funds. 18 U.S.C. §§ 641, 1341, 1343, 1957(a). All were crimes relating to an elaborate real estate financing fraud scheme in Chicago during the housing bubble of the early 2000s. A jury convicted...

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