Schulze

MEMORANDUM **

Defendant Michael F. Schulze (“Schulze”) appeals the denial of his motion to suppress and his motion to reconsider. The district court properly concluded that the government did not intentionally or recklessly omit material information about the confidential informant from its affidavit in support of a search warrant for Schulze’s residence. Moreover, even if the government had intentionally or recklessly omitted information about the informant’s background and motivations, there was sufficient independent corroborating evidence in the affidavit to support the magistrate judge’s finding of probable cause. Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154, 155-56 , 98 S.Ct. 2674 , 57 L.Ed.2d 667 (1978); United States v. Martinez-Garcia, 397 F.3d 1205, 1215 (9th Cir.2005). The confidential informant consistently supplied the government with reliable information, *40 which the government confirmed through independent investigation. Additionally, much of the information in the affidavit came from Schulze himself, via audio recordings of conversations between Schulze and the confidential informant.

The district court also properly concluded that audiotapes of conversations between…