Opinion ID: 66289
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Funds and Property

Text: Each count of the indictment specifies “funds and property.” R1-13 at 1-11. Germany contends that because the government failed to describe the type of property misapplied or the value of the property versus the value of the funds, the indictment was defective. Germany’s support for this proposition comes in the form of a First Circuit case that is readily distinguishable on its facts from this case. Moreover, we have previously found an indictment sufficient that alleged that defendants “did knowingly and willfully devise and intend to devise a scheme . . . to defraud Fulton County, Georgia, and its citizens of money and property. . . .” Poirier, 321 F.3d at 1029. We find that a commonsense construction of the five counts charged in the indictment and the over 150 overt acts listed therein fairly informed Germany of the charges against which he had to defend.