Punch and Jurists

U.S. v. Sain, No. 97-3114 (3rd Cir.) (141 F.3d 463) (April 10, 1998) (Judge Max Rosenn) by In this case of first impression, the court analogized the Major Fraud Act with the bank fraud statute which, it noted, punishes each execution of a fraudulent scheme rather than each act in …

U.S. v. Brooks, No. 95-5728 (4th Cir.) (111 F.3d 365) (April 16, 1997) (Judge Paul V. Niemeyer) by In this case of first impression, the Court acknowledged that its decision was at variance with what it called dictum in U.S. v. Nadi, 996 F.2d 548 (2nd Cir. 1993) where that …