Tsai

MEMORANDUM **

Appellant Jack Tsai (“Tsai”) appeals a final judgment by the district court in a criminal case. After a jury trial, Tsai was convicted of six counts of mail fraud, five counts of money laundering, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and making a false statement in a loan application. He argues that the government violated 18 U.S.C. § 201 (c)(2) (“ § 201(c)(2)”) and his due process rights under the Fifth Amendment by offering leniency to a key witness that the government knew or should have known would perjure himself. Tsai also argues that the government did not provide sufficient evidence to sustain his convictions. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

From 1989 until some point in the 1990s, Tsai and Adam Zachs (“Zachs”) were partners in an insurance scam conspiracy in which they staged or fabricated automobile accidents and obtained settlements from various insurance companies. Around 1992, two other individuals, Jason Louie (“Louie”) and Anthony Kim (“Kim”), became participants in the insurance scam.

In March 1993, Tsai had an unstaged automobile accident. Tsai asked Zachs and his associates to…