United States Second Circuit

18 U.S.C. section 1346 is not unconstitutionally vague as applied to the facts of this case, in which the defendants arranged for secret gratuities to be paid to claims adjusters employed by insurance companies against whom the defendants' clients asserted claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/29/2003
• Published 12/29/2003

Judges

• Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, JACOBS, CALABRESI, CABRANES, F.I. PARKER,STRAUB, POOLER, SACK, SOTOMAYOR, KATZMANN, B.D. PARKER, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard A. Greenberg, Newman & Greenberg, New York, N.Y. (Karl E. Pflanz;  Victor J. Rocco, New York Council of Defense Lawyers, New York, NY, of counsel) for Amicus Curiae New York Council of Defense Lawyers., Ellen S. Podgor, Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA (Joshua L. Dratel, New York, NY, of counsel) for Amici Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and New York Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.


• For Appellees:
  
• Barbara D. Underwood, Chief Assistant United States Attorney (Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York;  David C. James, Assistant United States Attorney, Daniel R. Alonso, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), Brooklyn, NY, for Appellee-Cross-Appellant., Herald Price Fahringer, Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Salisbury & Cambria LLP (Erica T. Dubno, of counsel), New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees Thomas Rybicki, Fredric Grae, and Grae, Rybicki & Partners, P.C., Barry E. Schulman, Brooklyn, NY, submitted a brief for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Thomas Rybicki., Ephraim Savitt, New York, NY, submitted a brief for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Fredric Grae.