Opinion ID: 72660
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: issues

Text: 6 The court declined to attribute First Interstate’s total incurred loss to Moorehead, Susan Dabbs and William Dabbs because a PST employee, Jones Calvin Peace, processed approximately $70,000 in credit card sales for a Sheldon Finklestein, who was not affiliated with PST. The district court held that those charges occurred outside the scope of the conspiracy charged in the indictment. The court only attributed to Floyd the losses stemming from the New European and Discount Furniture merchant accounts, less the $70,000 that Peace processed. 10 We discuss the following issues: (1) whether the government properly established venue in the Middle District of Florida; (2) whether a merchant account constitutes an “access device” for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 1029; (3) whether the district court properly calculated the monetary losses attributable to the appellants for purposes of increasing their base offense levels pursuant to section 2F1.1 of the guidelines; and (4) whether the district court erroneously failed to consider Floyd’s ability to pay in assessing restitution.7