United States Second Circuit

Conviction and sentence for racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, extortion, honest services mail fraud, bribery involving programs receiving federal funds, conspiracy to commit bribery, and filing false income tax returns are affirmed over claim that the jury instructions on the bribery-related offenses were erroneous.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/04/2007
• Published 12/04/2007

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before:  JACOBS, Chief Judge, SOTOMAYOR and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Sandra S. Glover, Assistant United States Attorney (Ronald S. Apter, Special Assistant United States Attorney, William J. Nardini, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Kevin J. O'Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, New Haven, CT, for Appellee., Eric W. Bloom, Winston & Strawn LLP, Washington, D.C. (Peter Goldberger, Pamela A. Wilk, Alan Ellis, Law Offices of Alan Ellis, Ardmore, PA, Edwin H. Caldie, Winston & Strawn LLP, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant.