United States v. Aldridge, No. 09-2520 (7th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseThe defendant was convicted of wire fraud in connection with a fraudulent investment and mortgage brokerage business and sentenced to 144 months. The Seventh Circuit affirmed. Evidence turned over by the defendant's wife, who was the former corporate secretary and one of the business organizers, was properly admitted; she was not an agent for the government, which was unaware that she was collecting evidence, but acted for private reasons. It does not matter whether she had a right to take the documents, but the defendant did, in fact, share custody of the records with his wife and she had the right to consent to a search. There was sufficient evidence that the defendant intended to defraud his victims and the above-guidelines sentence was reasonable in light of evidence of criminal history and that the defendant was planning new fraudulent schemes.
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