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UNITED STATES of America v. August John STILE, Jr., Appellant.
    No. 06-3083.
    United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
    Submitted for Possible Summary Action Under Third Circuit LAR 27.4 and I.O.P. 10.6 Dec. 21, 2006.
    Filed April 25, 2007.
    John C‘ G^nus, Jr., Office of United States Att°raey, Scranton, PA, for United States of America.
    August John Stile, Jr., Jonesville, VA, pro se.
    Before: MCKEE, FUENTES and ROTH, Circuit Judges.
   OPINION

PER CURIAM

August John Stile appeals the District Court s order denying his motion filed under Rule 36 of the Federal Rules of Crimina^ Procedure. In August, 2002, Stile was found after a Jury trial of multiple counts of fraud and money-laundering, in-eluding Count 4, which charged Stiles with a scheme to commit bank fraud by forging the signature of Joseph P. Gowan on a check payable to Gowan and depositing the proceeds into his own account in 1996. The “Scheme and Artifice to Defraud” out-fined in the Indictment was incorporated by reference in Count 4. It states that Stile continued to use the proceeds from these ill-gotten funds for his own purposes into 1997.

In April 2003, the District Court imposed a forty-six month term of imprisonment. This Court denied Stile’s appeal in April 2004. On September 28, 2004, Stile filed a motion to vacate his sentence pursuant to § 2255 which was denied. We declined to issue a certificate of appealability C A No 03-2017 (3d Cir Apr 20 2004). in May 2006, Stile filed a Buie 36 motion, which the District Court denied. Stile filed a timely notice of appeal. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291.

Stile sought to amend the judgment to reflect the offense date in Count 4 as a date certain in March 1996. The Government opposed the motion, claiming that there was no clerical error in the judgment , „ „ „ , , ,, , because the tacts oí the case showed that Stile continued his fraudulent money-laundering scheme (detailed in Count 4 of the Indictment) from 1996 through May of 1997. The District Court agreed. The District Court rejected Stile’s argument that the only charge under Count 4 was the forgery of a check payable to Joseph Gowan on March 29, 1996. The District Court held that Count 4 charged Stile with bank fraud based on a scheme that occurred between February 1996 and March 1997, the jury convicted him of the charge in Count 4, and the Judgment accurately reflected the charge for which he was convicted. Because there was no clerical error in the Judgment and Commitment, the District Court properly denied Rule 36 relief.

Summary action is appropriate if there is no substantial question presented in the appeal. See Third Circuit LAR 27.4. For the reasons set forth by the District Court, we will summarily affirm the District Court’s order. See Third Circuit I.O.P. 10.6. 
      
      . According to the Government, the change in offense date to a date prior to the enactment of the PLRA would allow the restoration of fifty-four days of earned good time credits that Stile lost pursuant to a prison disciplinary adjudication.