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U.S. v. THOMAS

Nos. 12-3919, 13-1515.

763 F.3d 689 (2014)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Donell A. THOMAS and Lamar Christopher Chapman III, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 14, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rick D. Young , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Cynthia L. Giacchetti , Attorney, Law Office of Cynthia Giacchetti, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before WOOD, Chief Judge, and EASTERBROOK and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

WOOD, Chief Judge.

Donell Thomas and Lamar Chapman III were convicted of multiple counts of wire fraud after a jury trial. The jury found that they were part of a scheme to fleece real estate lenders by concocting multiple false sales of the same homes and using the loan proceeds from the later transactions to pay off the earlier lenders. Thomas was also convicted of aggravated identity theft for using a real estate investor's identity without permission to craft...

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