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UNITED STATES v. BURKE

Crim. Nos. 22709, 22717 and 22718.

278 F.Supp. 711 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America v. William Joseph BURKE, Sherman Chadwick Kaminsky, Joseph Francis Nardello, and Isadore Weisberg.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

January 2, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Drew J. T. O'Keefe, U. S. Atty., Robert St. Leger Goggin, Asst. U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Jr., A. Charles Peruto, Melvin Dildine, Dominick Vitullo, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.

OPINION

WEINER, District Judge.

Defendants herein were indicted and charged for the federal offenses of promoting and conspiring to promote extortion under state law, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1952, 371, and 2. Defendants subjected themselves to federal jurisdiction by their interstate travel for the purpose of carrying on their alleged enterprise, 18 U.S.C. § 1952(a).

The validity of this indictment raises squarely a question of statutory construction...

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