Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit December 11, 1995, Nos. 93-50859, 93-50860, 94-50010, 95-50270 and 50271 (United States v. Sarno)

OPINION

McKAY, Circuit Judge:

These appeals recount a sadly familiar tale from the Eighties: the financial looting of a federally-insured lending institution by would-be robber barons.1 The following facts are those which the jury reasonably could have found.

The architect of this particular scheme, Defendant Charles W.