Opinion ID: 197023
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Josleyn

Text: 35 Similarly, there was ample evidence to enable a rational jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that Josleyn conspired with Cardiges and others to defraud Honda in connection with the Honda dealership franchises. In early 1991, while zone manager for the west coast, Josleyn arranged for a friend back east, Joe Pope, to pay $150,000 for the open point in Elk Grove, California. Josleyn approached Cardiges, national sales manager, and Robert Rivers, regional manager for the western United States, and advised that there would be money in it for all of them if Pope were to receive the Elk Grove dealership. Thereafter, Cardiges, Rivers, and Josleyn, in direct violation of Honda procedure, decided not to prospect for suitable dealership candidates, and awarded the Elk Grove franchise outright to Pope. As promised, Pope issued a $150,000 check payable to Gary & Associates, a company controlled by Josleyn and his brother Gary. Josleyn in turn gave Cardiges and Rivers each $50,000 in cash. 36 Cardiges testified that Ed Temple, a former Honda zone manager, approached him in the summer of 1991 in behalf of Bob Frink, a dealer interested in the Folsom, California point. Temple had accepted payoffs from dealers while employed by Honda, and after leaving the company in 1989 established a firm--Blakely Consultants--to facilitate payments to Honda executives from dealers seeking new Honda franchises. Simply put, Temple told Cardiges that Frink was willing to pay Cardiges and Josleyn for the Folsom dealership. On August 5, 1991, Cardiges signed the Folsom LOI, and on the same day Frink paid Blakely Consultants $500,000 for services rendered. Three days later, Temple wrote a $166,666 check to Magnum Marketing, a company owned by Josleyn. Cardiges reported $166,666 from Blakely Consultants on his own 1991 income tax return, although Temple had agreed to hold Cardiges' one-third share until Cardiges left Honda. 37 We need belabor the point no further, as there was ample evidence to enable the jury reasonably to conclude, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Josleyn was a member of the Count II dealership franchise conspiracy. See Boylan, 898 F.2d at 242.