Order — U.S. v. Dale Lawrence Hipes (D. Ariz.)

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An order in United States of America v. Dale Lawrence Hipes, No. CR-21-00199-PHX-MTL, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, filed August 10, 2023 as Document 128, denying Hipes's Motion for New Trial (Doc. 98). The order recounts that Hipes, as Chief Executive Officer of BRI Supply, Inc., promised to deliver 9 million 3M-branded N95 respirators, that the government charged Hipes misrepresented BRI as an authorized 3M distributor, and that a buyer paid $16.65 million, of which $4.65 million was retained. A jury convicted Hipes on four counts of wire fraud and three counts of transactional money laundering. The court finds the emails offered as new evidence were in Hipes's possession before trial, would serve only to impeach a government witness, and would not make an acquittal probable.

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