United States v. Williams

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 05-30071 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CR-03-60104-HO

JOHN ANTHONY WILLIAMS,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Michael R. Hogan, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted January 12, 2006—Portland, Oregon

Filed March 21, 2006

Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Graber

2969 2972 UNITED STATES v. WILLIAMS

COUNSEL

Ruben L. Iniguez, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Port- land, Oregon, for the defendant-appellant.

Christopher L. Cardani, Assistant United States Attorney, Eugene, Oregon, for the plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

GRABER, Circuit Judge:

Defendant John Anthony Williams appeals his conviction and sentence for mail and wire fraud and money laundering. UNITED STATES v. WILLIAMS 2973 His main argument is that the government improperly charged him under an “intangible rights” theory of mail and wire fraud, because that theory does not apply to private…