of remoteness in time.” Meacham, 115 F.3d at 1495; see also Brooks, 736 F.3d at 940 (“The fact that [Defendant] previously dealt drugs with the coconspirators helps establish the basis of the relationship between them and his intent to do the same. [Defendant] teamed up with them to deal drugs in 2000, and those relationships made it more likely he intended to team up with them again [six to ten years later in the charged narcotics conspiracy] from 2006 to 2010, rather than just carrying on as an independent seller.” (emphasis added)). Indeed, prior acts that were quite remote to the crimes charged have frequently been deemed by us and our sister circuits to be relevant if they were sufficiently similar to those crimes. See United States v. Rodriguez, 215 F.3d 110, 121 (1st Cir.2000) (<HOLDING>); United States v. Hernandez-Guevara, 162 F.3d
holding that government may prove facts outside the overt acts alleged in the indictment holding as to the admissibility of prior bad acts that allegedly took place fourteen and twelve years before the acts alleged in that case that the lapse of time between the defendants sexual acts    goes to the weight of the evidence not to its admissibility holding that the district court correctly instructed the jury that there had to be a substantial similarity between the indictment and the proof in order to find the defendant guilty holding that the striking similarity between the acts alleged in the indictment and the prior incidents rendered incidents that occurred fifteen years prior to the acts alleged in the indictment relevant and admissible under rule 404b holding that where the date of the offense is not an element of the charge  a variance between the indictment date and the proof at trial is not fatal so long as the acts charged were committed within the statute of limitations period and prior to the return date of the indictment