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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
EMANUELE PALMA,
Defendant-Appellee.
   No. 21-1782
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan at Detroit.
No. 2:19-cr-20626-1—Nancy G. Edmunds, District Judge.
Argued: October 20, 2022
Decided and Filed: January 18, 2023
Before: COLE, GIBBONS, and BUSH, Circuit Judges.


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OPINION
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JOHN K. BUSH, Circuit Judge. Defendant Emanuele Palma was indicted for several crimes, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The indictment alleges that Palma and others conspired to falsify test results for a new diesel engine and market these engines as environmentally friendly, meeting regulatory standards, and “best-in-class” compared with other diesel engines. The district court dismissed this count since, in its view, the property loss by consumers was too far removed from the falsified test results, which, the court reasoned, were meant to deceive regulators. Because Palma is only charged with conspiracy, not wire fraud itself, and because the indictment alleges adequate facts tying Palma to a fraudulent scheme, we REVERSE.