U.S. v. Faruki

Record contained sufficient evidence to support jury’s guilty verdict on series of wire fraud charges stemming from alleged investment scheme in which defendant made false statements regarding his management of $5 million investment portfolio that defendant used to induce victim to invest $1 million with defendant. Govt. presented documentary and other evidence from third parties mentioned by defendant to demonstrate that many of defendant’s statements regarding existence of his investment portfolio were false. Fact that subject wire transfers did not contain defendant’s name or that certain wire transfers occurred after date victim transferred money to defendant did not require different result where: (1) evidence showed that defendant had actually controlled wire transfers at issue in charged offenses; and (2) wire transfers sent after transfer of $1 million from victim to defendant were part of overall scheme to obtain and trade victim’s money.