United States First Circuit

Convictions for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and multiple counts of wire fraud in a scheme to bribe the then-speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives to influence state legislation in ways favorable to a gambling facility and dog track are affirmed over defendants' arguments that: 1) there was insufficient evidence; 2) jury instructions were improper; 3) the court erred in several evidentiary rulings; 4) the prosecutor engaged in misconduct; and 5) that criminal responsibility could not be imputed to the corporate defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/08/2006
• Published 09/08/2006

Judges

• BOUDIN, Chief Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, SELYA, Circuit Judge, and SARIS, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John A. MacFadyen with whom B. Jean Rosiello and MacFadyen, Gescheidt & O'Brien, were on brief for appellant Nigel Potter., Anthony M. Traini, for appellant Daniel Bucci., John A. Tarantino, with whom Patricia K. Rocha, and Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C., were on brief for LPRI, LLC.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donald C. Lockhart, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Robert Clark Corrente, United States Attorney, and Lee H. Vilker and Peter F. Neronha, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on consolidated brief for appellee.