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The convictions and sentence of Casey David Crowther, 37, of Fort Myers, on fraud charges related to Covid relief funds have been affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta in one of the first federal appeals involving a fraudulent COVID-relief loan case.
An appeals court has upheld the convictions of a Fort Myers roofer convicted of COVID relief fraud.
The federal hearing involving FMPD officers James Barlow and Chris Robles came to a close Thursday after the jury found the officers free of all charges.
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A week after the verdict Crowther's attorneys renewed a motion for judgment of acquittal or alternatively for a new trial claiming there were inconsistencies and uncertainties in the government's case. In a response to the motion, Trenton J. Reichling, one of the two assistant United States Attorneys who prosecuted the case, responded in opposition to the renewed motion that there was more than sufficient evidence to support the jury’s verdict. "Further, the defendant’s claim that the government’s case was marked with inconsistencies and uncertainties is without merit and does not w...