Mealey's (January 27, 2021, 2:48 PM EST) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 22 affirmed a judge’s ruling allowing the government to admit evidence regarding other fires in a case brought against a man who was convicted on four counts of mail fraud for submitting claims to insurance companies for fires that were set to homes he owned, finding that evidence about fires that occurred in 2010 could show that he was engaged in a scheme and that information about a 2004 fire could demonstrate his modus operandi....