Mealey's (September 24, 2020, 12:52 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Sept. 21 vacated a federal judge in California's ruling ordering a man to pay $243,680.84 in restitution, ruling that the government failed to show that the entire amount resulted from a scheme involving the submission of fraudulent bills to insurers for fires that were set deliberately to obtain policy proceeds (United States v. Brian Stone, No. 18-10382, 9th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 30034)....