Mealey's (October 3, 2019, 2:45 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Sept. 23 upheld a man’s conviction and 150-month sentence for his role in a scheme that involved lying on loan applications by falsely inflating the price of a property and then selling the properties to other financial institutions, holding that the evidence presented at trial supported the jury’s finding and that he received effective assistance of counsel (United States v. Aaron Wider, No. 17-997, 2nd Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 28605)....