A Virgin Islands Casino Control Commission contractor who was found guilty of stealing government funds lost her appeal to undo a related conspiracy conviction after the Third Circuit on Friday deemed her arguments unconvincing.
Stephanie Barnes claimed there was insufficient evidence to support her conviction for conspiring to steal from a program receiving federal funds, claiming her alleged co-conspirator was merely an agent of the VICCC, not the Virgin Islands government, and that the funds she misappropriated weren’t government funds.
But the evidence was sufficient to show that her alleged co-conspirator—chairman of the VICCC Violet Golden—was a government agent and ...
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