United States v. Rodriguez
United States v. Rodriguez
Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
A rational trier of fact could have found based on the evidence at trial that Rodriguez committed mail fraud and conspired to commit mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 371. Takeuchi’s testimony was sufficient to establish that it was Sanyo’s ordinary custom to send checks to its vendors through the U.S. mail. Further, the evidence was sufficient to allow a rational jury to conclude that use of the mails was reasonably foreseeable, where Rodriguez submitted invoices to, and received checks from, a company located hours away from her business. See Pereira v. United States, 347 U.S. 1, 8-9, 74 S.Ct. 358, 362-63, 98 L.Ed. 435 (1954).
AFFIRMED.
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