GENTRY

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Ekelman & Assocs., Inc., 532 F.2d 545 (6th Cir. 1976)
  …o verify information, subsequently determined to be false, which it certified was “true to the best of [its] knowledge and belief.” We agree with the Fifth Circuit’s rejection of this position in United States v. DeWitt, 265 F. 2d 393, cert. denied, 361 U.S. 866, 80 S.Ct. 121, 4 L.Ed.2d 105 (1959). In DeWitt, a real estate dealer falsely represented to Mortgage Investment Company, a non-supervised lender, that veterans-mortgagors intended to occupy the mortgaged homes in question. In affirming the granting…
• United States v. Bristol, 473 F.2d 439 (5th Cir. 1973)
  …4, 73 S.Ct. 284, 97 L.Ed. 698 (graft). See also Roe v. United States, 5 Cir. 1961, 287 F. 2d 435, cert. denied, 368 U.S. 824, 82 S.Ct. 43, 7 L.Ed.2d 29; United States v. De Witt, 5 Cir. 1959, 265 F. 2d 393, 401 (Brown, J., dissenting), cert. denied, 361 U.S. 866, 80 S.Ct. 121, 4 L.Ed.2d 105. The offense described in section 213 is analogous to those above. It is statutory in origin and has no common-law basis from which to bootstrap any specific [*443] intent requirement. Cf. Morissette v. United States, 1…
• Beckwith v. United States, 293 F.2d 471 (5th Cir. 1961)
  …the Borger property, and had communicated his change of mind to Beckwith before the closing of the transaction, no false claim was made. For this proposition the appellant cites United States v. DeWitt, 5 Cir., 1959, 265 F. 2d 393, certiorari denied 361 U.S. 866, 80 S.Ct. 121, 4 L.Ed.2d 105. The closing, says the appellant, was on, or at least no later than, May 25, 1953, the date of the disbursement by the lender, and not on May 27, 1953, and June 26, 1953, the dates of the application and amended applicat…