United States Fifth Circuit

Convictions for extortion, mail and wire fraud, money laundering, making false statements, and RICO violations, all arising from schemes to make money from Louisiana's riverboat gambling license process using the governor's influence, are affirmed on numerous grounds.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/23/2002
• Published 08/23/2002

Judges

• BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, WIENER and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nathan Z. Dershowitz (argued), Amy M. Adelson, Dershowitz, Eiger, Adelson, New York City, Richard George Crane, Nashville, TN, Alan M. Dershowitz (argued), Harvard University, School of Law, Cambridge, MA, Mary Jane Marcantel, Baton Rouge, LA, for Edwin Edwards.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen A. Higginson, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.