Kranovich

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 03-10226 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CR-02-00138-ECR

MICHAEL KRANOVICH,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Edward C. Reed, Jr., District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted January 16, 2004—San Francisco, California

Filed March 23, 2005

Before: J. Clifford Wallace and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges, and Barry Ted Moskowitz, District Judge.*

Opinion by Judge Wallace

*The Honorable Barry Ted Moskowitz, District Judge for the Southern District of California, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Fred Atcheson, Reno, Nevada, for the defendant-appellant.

Ronald C. Rachow, Assistant United States Attorney, Reno, Nevada, for the plaintiff-appellee. 3556 UNITED STATES v. KRANOVICH

OPINION

WALLACE, Circuit Judge:

Former Lander County Sheriff Kranovich appeals from his judgment of conviction and sentence for theft involving a fed- erally funded program, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1), and theft of government…