U.S. v. MALPESO

Nos. 922, 979 and 980, Dockets 96-1237, 96-1262 and 96-1263.

115 F.3d 155 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Louis MALPESO, aka Bobo; Robert Gallagher; Joseph Amato, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 3, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judd Burstein, Burstein & Fass LLP, New York City (Marc Fernich, Burstein & Fass LLP, New York City, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellant Louis Malpeso.

John L. Pollok, Hoffman & Pollok, New York City (Gerald L. Shargel, Jeffrey Lichtman, Michael S. Pollok, Hoffman & Pollok, New York City, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellant Robert Gallagher.

Alan S. Futerfas, New York City, for Defendant-Appellant Joseph Amato.

Valerie Caproni and Sung-Hee Suh, Assistant United States Attorneys, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Zachary W. Carter, United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York, David C. James, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y., of counsel), for Appellee.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, MINER and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.


MINER, Circuit Judge:

Defendants appeal from judgments entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Dearie, J.), following a jury trial, convicting them of numerous offenses arising from their participation in a war between competing factions of the Colombo organized crime family. Defendant-appellant Louis Malpeso was convicted on four counts of acts of violence or conspiracies to commit acts of violence, for the purpose of maintaining...

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