Garro

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 06-50513 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CR-02-02429-MJL

JAMES F. GARRO,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California M. James Lorenz, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted September 25, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed February 28, 2008

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Sandra S. Ikuta, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Wallace COUNSEL

Frank J. Ragen, Julie A. Blair, and Michael Pancer, San Diego, California, for the appellant James Garro. 1784 UNITED STATES v. GARRO Karen P. Hewitt, United States Attorney, Bruce R. Castetter and Mark R. Rehe, Assistant United States Attorneys, San Diego, California, for appellee the United States.

OPINION

WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge:

Garro appeals from his 135-month prison sentence after a jury conviction of eight counts of wire fraud, see 18 U.S.C. § 1343, eleven counts of money laundering, see 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956 (a)(1)(A)(i), (a)(1)(B)(i), and one count of…