U.S. v. Aldridge

In prosecution on wire fraud and aiding and abetting wire fraud charges stemming from scheme to defraud investors who purchased CDs in defendant's financial planning entity, Dist. Ct. did not err in denying defendant's motion to suppress incriminating corporate documents that defendant's wife had tendered to govt., even though govt. had failed to obtain search warrant for said documents. Record did not suggest that defendant's wife posed as agent for govt. where govt. had no prior knowledge that wife had been gathering said documents when she unilaterally tendered them to govt. Moreover, Ct. rejected defendant's claim that his wife lacked authority to consent to govt. search of said documents, where record showed that wife had joint custody over subject documents that defendant had tendered to her.