Denver Couple’s Fraud Convictions Upheld After Joint Trial

A Denver couple who tried to blame each other for scheme to steal millions from defense contractor National Air Cargo using phony invoices lost their appeals Monday to undo their convictions.

Michael and Kimberley Tew, whose separate appeals were consolidated, claimed their trials should have been severed. But Kimberley waived her severance argument, and Michael’s mid-trial motion for severance came too late, the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit said.

Kimberley, who used some of the stolen funds to trade in crytocurrency and gamble, also argued that data seized from her cell phone should have been suppressed ...