Mealey's (June 10, 2020, 8:11 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on June 9 found that a federal judge in West Virginia did not abuse his discretion when allowing evidence regarding a prior fire at a fraud defendant’s Wharncliffe, W.Va., home, holding that the evidence of the fire was inextricably intertwined with the fraud and conspiracy allegations at issue in the case (United States v. James Edward Lester, No. 19-4333, 4th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 18129)....