U.S. v. Shannon

Record contained sufficient evidence to support defendant’s guilty verdict in bench trial on charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft arising out of scheme to obtain stolen identities for purposes of filing false tax returns and receiving fraudulent tax refunds. While defendant argued that his conviction was subject to doubt because main government witness discovered that defendant was having affair with witness’ wife, record indicated that Dist. Ct. was actually aware of potential motivation of witness to testify falsely. Moreover, Dist. Ct. considered evidence from victims and other evidence that supported claims made by witness, including recordings of conversations made between defendant and witness, as well as contents of laptop that defendant gave to witness that contained list of victims’ names and other identifying information.