UNITED STATES v. CIANCIULLI

Criminal No. 79-165.

476 F.Supp. 845 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America v. Matthew J. CIANCIULLI, Jr., Joseph A. Ricca, Ramon Meirino, Patricia Di Giambattista, Anthony Skedzielewski, Anthony Fiorentino, Joseph Costello, Catherine Spagna, Vincent Spagna, Richard De Angelis, Joseph Tully, Mary Ann Tully, Salvatore Morici, Joseph Aldinger, Grace Conigliero, Salvatore Conigliero, Frank D. Coppola, Barbara A. Coppola, Thomas Castelli, Angelo Sannutti, Robert Russell, Carol Russell, Helson Meirino, Joseph Asnes, Vincent Lombardo.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

August 30, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter F. Vaira, U. S. Atty., Peter F. Schenck, Asst. U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Jeffrey M. Miller, Helen T. M. McCaffrey, Julia B. Passyn, Alan M. Lieberman, Charles Jay Bogdanoff, Ivan J. Feiner, Edward Michael Flannery, Spencer M. Wertheimer, Michael L. Levy, William J. Winning, Andrew Jackson, Vincent M. Larusso, Richard W. Hoy, Nicholas Maiale, Alexander Giacobetti, Michael H. Cox, Gerald J. Pomerantz, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BECHTLE, District Judge.

For the following reasons, the Court, after careful review and consideration of the decisional authority, will order sua sponte severance of the trial of the above case into three separate trials, pursuant to the express and inherent judicially created powers under Fed.R.Crim.P. 14.

The action before the Court concerns alleged improprieties engaged in by the 25 named defendants arising...

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