United States Second Circuit

In case involving the Gambino Organized Crime Family, convictions and sentences for participation in an enterprise constituting a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization are affirmed over claims challenging: 1) the receipt in evidence of uncharged crimes, expert testimony, and recordings of jailhouse conversations; 2) the constitutionality and reasonableness of their sentences; and 3) venue of the prosecutions; and 4) effective assistance of counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/30/2007
• Published 05/30/2007

Judges

• LEVAL, Circuit Judge., Before: FEINBERG, LEVAL, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John A. Cirando, D.J. & J.A. Cirando, Esqs., (Rebecca A. Crance, on the brief), Syracuse, NY, for Defendant-Appellant John Matera., Thomas H. Nooter, Freeman Nooter & Ginsberg, Esqs., New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Thomas Carbonaro., Joseph A. Bondy, Law Offices of Joseph A. Bondy, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Peter Gotti., Elie Honig, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Victor L. Hou, Karl Metzner, Assistant United States Attorneys, of counsel;  Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney, on the brief), New York, NY, for Appellee.