United States v. Irizarry-Irizarry

Summary

The court affirmed Irizarry-Irizarry's convictions for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, holding that the evidence permitted a rational jury to find that he knowingly joined the overarching conspiracy. His efforts to conceal the diversion of municipal funds, his receipt of payments supported by fabricated invoices, and his coordination with the conspiracy's central participant established interdependence and overlap and defeated his prejudicial-variance argument. The court dismissed without prejudice his challenge to the denial of a sentence-reduction motion because he filed no notice of appeal from that order.