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United States v. Mills, 895 F.2d 897, 907 (2d Cir. 1990) (upholding trial court's admission of accused's 1982 arrest and conviction for counterfeiting as proof of intent and identity where accused claimed absence of intent in accepting the bag of counterfeit bills, and the government, on rebuttal, showed...If another crime or wrong is offered under the second sentence of Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) to show the identity of an actor, wrongdoer, or defendant (e.g., to show that a criminal defendant rather than someone else committed the crime for which defendant is on trial), the other crime or wrong and the act, wrong, or crime at issue at trial must have been committed in a distinctive as well as similar fashion.

United States v. Williams, 527 F.3d 1235, 1247 (11th Cir. 2008) (upholding trial court's admission into evidence of accused's history of non-compliance with federal grant regulations because accused claimed good faith defense and inadvertent mistake and rebuttal evidence was offered as "to prove...Evidence of a criminal or wrongful act apart from the act that at issue at trial Is not barred by the prohibition against circumstantial use of character if intent, knowledge, mistake, or accident is a legally-material factual issue, the opposing party suggests the non-existence of knowledge or urges mistake or accident as a defense, and evidence of another crime, wrong, or act is offered to prove the knowledge or the absence of mistake or accident by a criminal defendant or other person.

United States v. Holt, 170 F.3d 698, 701 (7th Cir. 1999) (upholding trial court's ruling which permitted the prosecutor's questions to character witnesess about their familiarity with accused's reputation because they testified regarding his reputation as law-abiding).Although a character witness who testifies to the reputation of another person or gives an opinion of the character of another person cannot testify to specific instances of that person's conduct to bolster the character witness's testimony, an opposing party may question the character witness about specific instances of the person's conduct to show that the character witness' testimony about the character of the person was not well-founded.