Opinion ID: 1225710
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: The sufficiency of the evidence with respect to Castaldi's criminal intent.

Text: Castaldi's final argument to this court is that the government did not present sufficient evidence of his intent to embezzle funds. This argument largely repeats the claim that Castaldi made in his challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence on the mail fraud charge: That Castaldi simply took directions from Hernandez about the disbursement of the grant funds. Again, however, the record reflects that the government presented testimony that both Castaldi and Hernandez wrote themselves checks out of the grant account, and that both were long-serving Union employees who knew the Union prohibited this practice. There is thus sufficient evidence in the record that Castaldi, in concert with Hernandez, knowingly embezzled funds intended for the JAC.