United States v. Henry Lo

Henry Lo appeals the district court’s imposition of a restitution order and a forfeiture money judgment, both in the amount of $2,232,894, as part of his sentence for three counts of wire fraud and mail fraud to which he pleaded guilty. The district court had jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. § 3231 , and we have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . Because Lo validly waived his right to appeal, and none of the exceptions to such waivers are applicable, we dismiss this appeal.

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On August 19, 2014, Henry Lo was indicted in district court for two different schemes to defraud: wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C., § 1343 , and.mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341 .

According to the indictment, Lo worked for Absolutely New, Inc. (ANI), a consumer goods company headquartered in San Francisco, from 2007 until 2010. Lo “knowingly and with intent to defraud” devised and executed “a scheme and artifice to defraud ANI” that involved several different uses of the wires. From January 2008 until September 2010, Lo used about $1,300,000 from ANI bank accounts to purchase cashier’s checks, and either deposited them in his personal account at the brokerage firm Charles Schwab &…