United States v. Mosca’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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1. ““Broadly, the charge of the indictment was that the defendants had formed a scheme to defraud those seeking and those granting mortgage loans by forming a straw company having no real assets which would for a fee issue commitment or ‘take-out’ letters by which it bound itself to purchase construction loan mortgages made by lending institutions. Such commitment letters were meant to enable prospective borrowers to obtain mortgage financing for construction projects which the lending institutions would not otherwise finance because of their unwillingness to make long term real estate mortgage loans. The fraud consisted in defrauding prospective borrowers of the fees they paid for the worthless commitment letters and defrauding the lending institutions by inducing them to lend in reliance on the worthless commitment letters.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Mosca

2. ““And, incidentally, you may have noticed that even though Wuensche testified without contradiction a couple of times that he was living with his wife and that apparently his wife didn’t think enough of the story to come here and support it in any respect.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Mosca