City Hall Swindler O’Garro Loses Appeal; Five More Years In Prison
O'Garro, an ambitious, young broker with his own successful agency, was convicted of three counts of fraud and sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison in 2010. He provoked months of contentious finger-pointing at
Records surfaced showing that city Treasurer
Cloud said he was deceived by O'Garro, now 34, after offering a helping hand to an up-and-coming minority businessman in a minority city.
O'Garro argued in his appeal to the
"In the present case O'Garro requested a jury instruction concerning the right-to-control theory that was identical in every material respect to the now-challenged instruction actually given by the District Court," the appellate decision said. "Thus, O'Garro waived his right to review of the District Court's jury instruction by 'inviting' the language at issue in this appeal."
O'Garro also claimed that his defense, by the federal public defender's office, was ineffective. The federal appeals judges told him to raise that issue in the district court.
Federal prosecutors argued to O'Garro's jury that he ran Hybrid, which he opened in 2010, as if it were a personal fundraising operation and a means to finance an over-the-top lifestyle.
Records compiled by a variety of government agencies show that, before he was 30, O'Garro was living in an exurban mini-mansion, had flown dozens of friends to
O'Garro pressed his appeal in part by himself and through a lawyer in
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