UNITED STATES v. BESCOND

No. 19-1698 August Term 2020.

7 F.4th 127 (2021)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Muriel BESCOND, Defendant-Appellant, Danielle Sindzingre, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 5, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JEREMY R. SANDERS , Appellate Counsel ( David C. James , Alixandra Smith , Andrey Spektor , Assistant United States Attorneys, for JACQUELYN M. KASULIS , Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Carol L. Sipperly , Senior Litigation Counsel; Timothy A. Duree , Trial Attorney; Brian A. Benczkowski , Assistant Attorney General; John P. Cronan , Deputy Assistant Attorney General; on the brief), Washington, DC and Brooklyn, NY, for Appellee United States of America.

LAURENCE S. SHTASEL , Blank Rome LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Muriel Bescond.

Chief Judge Livingston concurs in part and dissents in part in a separate opinion.


Muriel Bescond, a French banker, is charged with transmitting false, misleading, and knowingly inaccurate commodities reports, and with conspiracy to do the same, in violation of the Commodity Exchange Act ("CEA"). A citizen and resident of France, she allegedly participated in the LIBOR benchmark interest rate calculation...

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