Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit November 15, 2001, 00-1241 (United States v. Laurence Seward)

DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.

Until his death at age 83, Wendell O’Neal was a boarder in Laurence Seward’s house, and, so he may have thought, a friend of Seward. After O’Neal died, however, Seward proved himself to be far less than a faithful companion. Instead, Seward embarked on a scheme to appropriate O’Neal’s assets.