United States Second Circuit

Conviction and sentence for racketeering, RICO conspiracy, and other crimes is affirmed where: 1) an illegal gambling operation constitutes tangible property that can be delivered under New York's extortion statute; 2) the victim was properly held to be a victim of an inchoate extortion offense under New York law; 3) defendants' firearms conviction qualified as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. sec. 924(c); 4) the admission of evidence seized from defendant Rudaj's home, if error at all, was harmless; and 5) the district court did not err in applying a role enhancement to defendant's sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/11/2009
• Published 06/11/2009

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before:  FEINBERG, MINER, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard A. Greenberg (Steven Y. Yurowitz, on the brief), New York, N. Y., for Defendant-Appellant Prenka Ivezaj., Richard Ware Levitt (Yvonne Shivers, on the brief), New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant Nardino Colotti., Harold Price Fahringer (Erica T. Dubno, on the brief), New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant Alex Rudaj., Jonathan Svetkey, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant Angelo DiPietro., Diarmuid White (Brendan White, on the brief), New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant Nikola Dedaj., John Burke, Brooklyn, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant Ljusa Nuculovic., Jennifer G. Rodgers, Assistant U.S. Attorney (Timothy J. Treanor, Benjamin Gruenstein & Jonathan S. Kolodner, Asst. U.S. Attorneys, on the brief), for Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y., for Appellee.