Business Owner’s Sweepstakes Scam Convictions Upheld on Appeal

A business owner convicted of fraud and conspiracy for his role in an advance-fee lottery scam targeting elderly Americans lost his appeal attempting to undo the judgment Monday.

Rohan Lyttle, a Jamaican national living in New York, challenged the sufficiency of the evidence of wire fraud, as well as the district court’s decision to admit portions of two videos about Jamaica-based lottery scams that Lyttle allegedly watched.

Lyttle claimed the videos, which focused on elderly Americans as victims of Jamaica-based scammers, were excessively prejudicial. But the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit disagreed, saying they showed Lyttle had ...