Duarte

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS DEC 16 2025

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 24-3363 D.C. No. Plaintiff - Appellee, 8:22-cr-00056-DOC-2 v.

MEMORANDUM*

ANTONIO DUARTE,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California David O. Carter, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted November 18, 2025** Pasadena, California

Before: BYBEE, LEE, and DE ALBA, Circuit Judges.

For his participation in a years-long timeshare-cancellation scheme that used

telemarketing companies to fleece almost 600 victims—many of them elderly—out

of $5.5 million, Antonio Duarte pled guilty to wire fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1343. Duarte

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). challenges his 108-month sentence and restitution order of $5,448,811.23. With

respect to a sentencing, “[w]e…