U.S. v. Bradshaw

Dist. Ct. did not err in sentencing defendant to 27-month term of incarceration on wire fraud charge stemming from defendant's scheme to embezzle more than $240,000 from three different employers, who had entrusted defendant to make purchases on behalf of said companies through the use of company credit card where defendant used card to make personal purchases and submitted false invoices to hide said purchases. While defendant argued that Dist. Ct. improperly applied abuse of position of trust enhancement under section 3B1.3 of USSG since defendant was employed as mere executive assistant at time of instant crime, Ct. found no clear error in applying said enhancement where instant employers, in spite of defendant's title, assigned defendant multi-faceted job responsibilities and placed more than ordinary degree of reliance on defendant's integrity and honesty when granting her use of company credit card. Ct. further noted that one employer had allowed defendant ability to approve her own false invoices.