# United States v. Whitfield (DEMONSTRATION RECORD) - Court: United States District Court for the District of North Haven - Docket: 21-cr-00417 - Filed: 2021-06-14 - Record current as of: 2026-07-31 - Sources: 5 (4 primary) - Canonical: https://caselawinfo.com/cases/us-v-whitfield-demonstration > Statements below are labelled. "Alleged" means a party asserted it. > "Found" means a court or jury so determined. "Vacated" means a finding > was later set aside. Nothing here is a statement of guilt or innocence > beyond what the cited record establishes. ## Parties - defendant: Dana Whitfield - prosecution: U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of North Haven - intervenor: Meridian Logistics Inc. ## Executive summary THIS IS A FICTIONAL DEMONSTRATION RECORD. No part of it describes a real case, person, or court. It exists to exercise the rendering of a complete record: a conviction obtained on a theory an appellate court later held invalid, with the conviction vacated in 2025. ## Key facts - FICTIONAL RECORD — created for testing, not reporting. - Charged June 2021 with six counts of wire fraud. - Convicted February 2023 on four counts. - Convictions vacated November 2025 on appeal. - No retrial had been scheduled as of the record date. ## §1 Executive summary _Not yet documented. No summary has been written yet._ ## §2 Key facts _Not yet documented. Key facts have not been documented yet._ ## §3 Allegations and charges **Alleged — U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of North Haven** The indictment charged that Whitfield directed the misstatement of delivery volumes to a lender across six interstate wire transmissions between 2018 and 2020. [^1] ## §4 Positions of the parties **Asserted position — Dana Whitfield** The defense argued the lender received the full contracted principal and interest, and that no economic harm resulted from the disputed volume reports. [^1] **Disputed — Court** Whether the lender suffered any cognisable loss remained contested; the trial record and the appellate opinion describe the same transactions in materially different terms. [^2][^3] ## §5 Procedural history _Not yet documented. The procedural history has not been documented yet._ ## §6 Judicial findings **Found — Jury** The jury returned guilty verdicts on four of six counts on 9 February 2023, and acquitted on the remaining two. [^2] **Vacated / reversed — Court** The Fourteenth Circuit vacated all four convictions on 3 November 2025, holding that the right-to-control theory on which they rested is not a valid basis for wire-fraud liability. [^3] ## §7 Sentence or remedy _No sentence is currently in effect. The convictions were vacated before the appeal of sentence was resolved. (as of 2026-07-31)_ ## §8 Appeals **Found — Court** The Court of Appeals reversed and remanded, and did not reach the sentencing challenges raised in the alternative. [^3] ## §9 Later developments **Alleged — U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of North Haven** The government’s February 2023 press release announcing the conviction was withdrawn and no longer resolves. It is retained here as a citation because the record of what was announced is itself material. [^4] ## §10 What the record shows that coverage usually omits **CaseLawInfo analysis — CaseLawInfo editorial** Contemporaneous coverage of the 2023 verdict remains widely available and indexed; the 2025 vacatur received little coverage. A reader encountering this matter through search is substantially more likely to find the conviction than its reversal. _Based on: The 2023 verdict was reported by at least one outlet cited here; the 2025 appellate opinion is cited here and is not accompanied by comparable coverage in this record._ ## §11 Unresolved questions _Not yet documented. We have not catalogued the questions this record leaves open._ ## §12 Timeline - **2021-06-14** — Indictment returned [^1] Six counts of wire fraud. - **2023-02-09** — Jury verdict [^2][^5] Guilty on four counts, acquitted on two. - **2025-11-03** — Convictions vacated on appeal [^3] The Fourteenth Circuit holds the right-to-control theory invalid and vacates all four convictions. ## §13 Sources [^1]: Indictment, United States v. Whitfield (No. 21-cr-00417) — U.S. District Court, District of North Haven · court filing · 2021-06-14 [^2]: Jury Verdict Form, United States v. Whitfield — U.S. District Court, District of North Haven · court filing · 2023-02-09 [^3]: Opinion, United States v. Whitfield, 88 F.4th 1201 (14th Cir. 2025) — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourteenth Circuit · court opinion · 2025-11-03 [^4]: Press release, Office of Public Affairs (withdrawn) — U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of North Haven · official statement · 2023-02-09 († this source no longer resolves) [^5]: Executive convicted in logistics fraud case — North Haven Ledger · news report · 2023-02-10 --- Retrieved from https://caselawinfo.com/cases/us-v-whitfield-demonstration JSON: https://caselawinfo.com/api/v1/cases/us-v-whitfield-demonstration