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UNITED STATES v. MARGIOTTA

No. 1238, Docket 82-1025.

688 F.2d 108 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Joseph M. MARGIOTTA, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 27, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving Younger, Washington, D. C. (Edward Bennett Williams, Robert L. Weinberg, John J. Buckley, Jr., Gerson A. Zweifach, Williams & Connolly, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for appellant.

Edward R. Korman, U. S. Atty., E. D. New York, Brooklyn, N. Y. (Vivian Shevitz, Larry J. Silverman, Asst. U. S. Attys., E. D. New York, Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for appellee.

Before KAUFMAN and WINTER, Circuit Judges, and WARD, District Judge.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

The significant role played by political parties in municipal government has been an often noted characteristic of American urban life. Some critics, contributing to the prevailing mythology that machine politics have controlled the corridors of local government,1 have highlighted the opportunities available to those who hold the strings of political power2 for defrauding the...

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