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- Title: United States v. Polichemi
- Author : Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 13, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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Argued January 4, 1999 Decided January 13, 20001 Not everyone has a perfect understanding of the complex workings of modern financial markets, and unfortunately, sometimes unscrupulous individuals manage to exploit that fact for a period of time. This case, at its outset, involved seven such individuals, who allegedly engaged in a breathtakingly ambitious phony investment scheme through which they bilked nearly 30 investors out of more than $15 million. Their largest patsy was the Chicago Housing Authority, which lost more than a third of its pension fund, some $13 million, in the scheme. The CHA's former director of employee benefits, John Lauer, landed in prison for fraud and related offenses as a result of these dealings. See United States v. Lauer, 148 F.3d 766 (7th Cir. 1998). The present appeal comes to us from the convictions after a jury trial of four of the defendants, Joseph Polichemi, Lyle ""Pete"" Neal, Oscar William Olson, and Charles Padilla, on assorted counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy, and perjury. A fifth, Larry Oesterman, who pleaded guilty, argues that his sentence is too harsh. Although taken together the four who went to trial have raised nearly a score of issues for our consideration, we conclude that the trial court's handling of the defendants' effort to strike a juror for cause was an error that fundamentally tainted the fairness of the trial. Under this circuit's decision in United States v. Underwood, 122 F.3d 389 (7th Cir. 1997), we have no choice but to reverse and remand for a new trial. This error was irrelevant to Oesterman, because of his guilty plea. Finding no error in the district court's sentencing decision, we affirm Oesterman's sentence.
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