Court Opinion

ID: 2650498
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2014-01-23 01:01:10.774458+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:08:12.169533
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM:
 

  Appellant Melissa Gulledge and her brother were charged in a twenty-eight count superseding indictment in 2011, involving an equity-skimming mortgage fraud scheme during the real estate boom along Alabama’s Gulf Coast. In 2007, the real estate boom went bust and the scheme unraveled. Gulledge was charged with fifteen counts: one count of conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 1349; two counts of wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343 and 2; four counts of false loan applications under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1014 and 2; and, eight counts of mail fraud under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 2.
 

  After a five-day jury trial in December 2011, Gulledge was convicted of all fifteen counts. The district court denied her motions for judgment of acquittal. In this appeal, Gulledge claims there was insufficient evidence presented at trial to support the jury’s guilty verdicts on all counts.
 

  Having reviewed the record and considered oral argument of the parties, we affirm the district court in all respects related to this appeal in denying Gulledge’s motions for judgment of acquittal.
 

  Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the United States, there is substantial evidence of Gulledge’s guilt, established through testimonial, stipulated, and documentary evidence.
 

  The jury verdicts stand as rendered.
 

  The judgment of the district court is
 

  AFFIRMED.