An attorney who was convicted on wire fraud charges and then won a judgment of acquittal will have to go back to trial once again after the Seventh Circuit held that the evidence was sufficient to support the verdict.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed the judgment of acquittal for Edward Filer, a lawyer who was accused of a scheme to defraud creditors of his client, Barsanti Woodwork, a Chicago business in financial trouble.
After the jury verdicts convicting Filer, the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted Filer’s motion for a judgment ...
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