United States v. Jerome P. Lutz, United States of America v. Jack D. Stewart, United States of America v. Perry A. White, United States of America v. Larry Zitek

621 F.2d 940 6 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 283 UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jerome P. LUTZ, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jack D. STEWART, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Perry A. WHITE, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Larry ZITEK, Defendant-Appellant. Nos. 78-2969, 78-2978, 78-2970 and 78-3008. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. May 9, 1980. David S. Teske, Des Connell, Susan Elizabeth Reese, Tommy Hawk, Portland, Or., for defendants-appellants. William Otis, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., argued, Louis M. Fischer, Washington, D. C., on brief, for plaintiff-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. Before KILKENNY and WALLACE, Circuit Judges, and JAMESON, * District Judge. WALLACE, Circuit Judge: 1 Lutz, Stewart, White, and Zitek appeal their convictions for mail fraud and wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 , 1343, and 2. We affirm. I. 2 In October 1975, Stewart and Lutz organized Nation-Wide Funding, Inc. (Nation-Wide), a loan-brokerage firm whose advertised goal…