United States Second Circuit

Convictions of conspiracy to commit extortion and substantive counts of extortion are affirmed, however, because the district court lacked sufficient facts to find at sentencing that a victim sustained permanent bodily injury, the sentences are vacated and the cases are remanded for further proceedings.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/13/2007
• Published 12/13/2007

Judges

• WILLIAM K. SESSIONS III, District Judge., Before:  McLAUGHLIN and WESLEY, Circuit Judges, and SESSIONS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Paul A. Goldberger (Stacey Van Malden, of counsel on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Lin Guang., Alan M. Nelson, Lake Success, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Shi Yong Wei., Jennifer G. Rodgers, Assistant United States Attorney, for Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Miriam E. Rocah, David Raskin, Celeste L. Koeleveld, Assistant United States Attorneys, of counsel), New York, NY, for Appellee.