151587P.pdf   03/07/2016  United States  v.  Thomas Whitlow
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-1587
   U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Lincoln   
   [PUBLISHED] [Kelly, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Beam, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Challenge to the sufficiency 
   of the wire fraud and conspiracy indictment was properly rejected as it 
   included all of the elements of the offenses charged; no error in 
   admitting co-conspirators' statements as there was independent 
   corroborating evidence of a conspiracy; evidence was sufficient to support 
   defendant's convictions; the district court enumerated appropriate factors 
   for its upward variance - defendant's extensive criminal history, the 
   failure of prior sentences to deter him, his utter disregard for the law 
   and his history of preying on elderly victims - and the sentence imposed 
   was not an abuse of the court's discretion.