U.S. v. Johnson

Record contained sufficient evidence to support jury’s guilty verdict on mortgage fraud charge stemming from defendants’ submission of false statements in home loan application, where record showed that defendants inflated their incomes and made false statement as to who would live in home. While govt. case rested largely on testimony of loan broker, who had history of duping his clients, jury could properly look to said testimony, as well as loan application itself, which consisted of several pages containing false statements that had been initialed by defendants, to support instant guilty verdict. Moreover, Dist. Ct. did not err in excluding evidence that broker had prepared false loan applications for other borrowers, since relevant evidence in instant case pertained to defendants’ own knowledge regarding false statements made in their loan application.