Questão jurídica principal
Whether the fraud conviction for commercial fraud violated federal law because the victims allegedly lacked due care and arglist was absent.
Decisão extraída
The scheme was arglisty; the investors' conduct did not amount to gross negligence that would exclude criminal protection.
Fundamentação extraída
The defendant created a sophisticated, systematic web of deception with professional appearances, false prospectuses, misleading websites and communications. Under settled case law, arglist is excluded only when the victim ignores the most basic precautions, which was not the case here.