United States Second Circuit

A conspiracy conviction under the Wire Wager Act, 18 USC 1084, does not require proof of a corrupt motive for any conspiracy to commit an offense that is malum prohibitum, rather than malum in se.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/31/2001
• Published 07/31/2001

Judges

• KEENAN, District Judge:, Before:  LEVAL and PARKER, Circuit Judges, and KEENAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph V. DeMarco, Assistant United States Attorney for Mary Jo White, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Assistant United States Attorney George S. Canellos, New York, NY, on the brief), for Appellee., Mark M. Baker, New York, N.Y. (Brafman & Ross, P.C., Benjamin Brafman, Jennifer Liang, and Melinda Sarafa on the brief) for Defendant-Appellant.