Opinion ID: 686729
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Heading: Loss to Equipment Suppliers

Text: 34 Section 1B1.3(a) provides that a defendant convicted for participation in a conspiracy is accountable in sentencing for all reasonably foreseeable acts and omissions of others in furtherance of the jointly undertaken criminal activity. U.S.S.G. Sec. 1B1.3(a)(1)(B). It follows that Lyons can be held accountable for the loss that stemmed from the non-payment of equipment suppliers by Pace and Greenfield if, but only if, these acts were in furtherance of their jointly undertaken criminal activity and were reasonably foreseeable by Lyons. 35 The District Court did not rule on whether all the frauds perpetrated by Pace and Greenfield against equipment suppliers were reasonably foreseeable by Lyons and were in furtherance of the conspirators' jointly undertaken criminal activity. The Court did find that Lyons could reasonably foresee that Pace and Greenfield would not pay for the phony ATM machine placed in the Buckland Mall. But the ATM machine accounts for only around $20,000 of the value of the fraudulently-obtained equipment. The District Court made no findings whatsoever concerning the remaining $80,000 worth of equipment that had been stolen by Pace and Greenfield. The Government concedes all this in its brief, and thus, as the Government recognizes, we must remand for further findings before we can determine what portion of the fraudulently-obtained equipment, and hence what part of the $100,000 total loss to the suppliers, can properly be attributed to Lyons. See United States v. Negron, 967 F.2d 68, 72-73 (2d Cir.1992) (remanding for further findings on whether co-defendants' activity was within the scope of defendant's agreement and was reasonably foreseeable to defendant). 6