Meredith

MEMORANDUM

Defendants-Appellants Lynne Meredith, Teresa Manharth Giordano, and Gayle By-bee appeal their jury convictions and sentences for conspiracy to defraud the United States, mail fraud, false representation of a Social Security number, passport fraud, and failure to file income tax returns. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 .

Because the parties are familiar with the factual and procedural history of this case, we do not recount additional facts, except as necessary to explain our decision. In a separate opinion, we address the sufficiency of the evidence, the indictment’s use of misdemeanor crimes as overt acts for the conspiracy count, the jury instruction regarding failure to file taxes, and the district court’s restitution orders. We affirm Defendants-Appellants’ other arguments reviewed in this Memorandum.

Meredith raises dozens of claims of error, some of which she fails to support with substantive argument or case citations. These claims violate Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 28(a)(9)(A)’s requirement that appellants support their “contentions and the reasons for them, with citations to the authorities and parts of the record on which the…