United States Second Circuit

In attempting to prove the necessary jurisdictional nexus with interstate commerce to support a Hobbs Act conviction, the government's showing only that an intended victim of an extortion was an employee of a company participating in interstate commerce was not enough to satisfy even the de minimis standard of proof required.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/05/2002
• Published 12/06/2002

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge., Before:  WINTER, F.I. PARKER, and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gerald L. Shargel,Law Office of Marc Fernich (Marc Fernich, Maurice Sercarz, on the brief), New York, NY, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Cynthia M. Monaco, Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (Alan Vinegrad, United States Attorney, David C. James and Peter A. Norling, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Appellee.