Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit September 2, 1998, 97-50210 (UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bassam SOUEITI, Defendant-Appellant)

KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:

Soueiti claims entitlement under the Equal Access to Justice Act to attorneys’ fees for successfully opposing deportation at a criminal sentencing. The district judge denied them, and we affirm.

FACTS

Soueiti ran up hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses on several credit cards. He stretched out the fraud by paying his credit card bills with bad checks.