United States Eleventh Circuit

Conviction and sentence for crimes committed by a high-ranking official and an administrative assistant in two labor unions are affirmed over defendants' challenges to: 1) the legal and factual support for their RICO and Taft-Hartley Act convictions; 2) the district court's denial of severance; and 3) the order of forfeiture.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/25/2007
• Published 10/25/2007

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and HULL, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kathleen M. Salyer, Anne R. Schultz, Asst. U.S. Atty., Madeleine R. Shirley, Miami, FL, for U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elliot H. Scherker, Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Kathleen M. Williams and Michael T. Caruso, Fed. Pub. Defenders, Miami, FL, for Defendants-Apellants.