UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

August Term 2019

Argued: March 12, 2020 Originally Decided: September 8, 2021 Reversed and Remanded: May 11, 2023, May 22, 2023 Decided: September 23, 2024

Docket Nos. 18-2990-cr (L) *, 18-3710-cr, 18-3712-cr, 18-3715-cr, 18-3850-cr

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Appellee,

- against -

STEVEN AIELLO, JOSEPH GERARDI, LOUIS CIMINELLI, ALAIN KALOYEROS, AKA DR. K., Defendants-Appellants,

JOSEPH PERCOCO, PETER GALBRAITH KELLY, JR., MICHAEL LAIPPLE, KEVIN SCHULER, Defendants.

ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, NOS. 21-1161, 21-1169, 21-1170

*Nos. 18-2990 (L) and 19-1272 (Con) were determined by opinion filed September 5, 2023. See United States v. Percoco, 80 F.4th 393 (2d Cir. 2023) (per curiam). This opinion determines the remaining appeals. Before: RAGGI, CHIN, and SULLIVAN, Circuit Judges.

Defendants-appellants Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, Louis Ciminelli, and Alain Kaloyeros appeal from judgments of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Caproni, J.) convicting them of wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy. Aiello also appeals his conspiracy to commit honest-services wire fraud conviction, and Gerardi also appeals his false statement conviction. After we affirmed the judgments of the district court, Aiello, Gerardi, Ciminelli, and Kaloyeros petitioned the Supreme Court for review. After granting certiorari and issuing opinions in this case and the related case, see Ciminelli v. United States, 598 U.S. 306 (2023), and Percoco v. United States, 598 U.S. 319 (2023), the Supreme Court remanded for further proceedings. In light of those opinions, we vacate the convictions for wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy, we vacate Aiello's conviction for conspiracy to commit honest- services wire fraud, we affirm Gerardi's false statement conviction, and we remand for further proceedings.

VACATED IN PART, AFFIRMED IN PART, AND REMANDED IN PART.

-2- Alexandra A.E. Shapiro, Daniel J. O'Neill, Fabien M. Thayamballi, Shapiro Arato Bach LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi.

Timothy W. Hoover, Spencer L. Durland, Hoover & Durland LLP, Buffalo, NY; Herbert L. Greenman, Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria LLP, Buffalo, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Louis Ciminelli.

Michael C. Miller, Reid H. Weingarten, Michael G. Scavelli, Bruce C. Bishop, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, New York, NY and Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellant Alain Kaloyeros.

Matthew D. Podolsky, Derek Wikstrom, Won S. Shin, Assistant United States Attorneys, for Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for the United States.

CHIN, Circuit Judge: