UNITED STATES v. SAPERE

No. 304, Docket 75-1278.

531 F.2d 63 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Vincent M. SAPERE, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 13, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene H. Kaplan, Waterbury, Conn. (Frederick W. Krug, Waterbury, Conn., on the brief), for appellant.

Paul E. Coffey, Sp. Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Peter C. Dorsey, U. S. Atty., New Haven, Conn., D. Conn., Jeffrey M. Johnson, Sp. Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Boston, Mass., of counsel), for appellee.

Before WATERMAN, OAKES and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the question whether evidence gleaned from illegal wiretaps in a Department of Justice gambling offense investigation may be found to have formed a portion, and hence tainted the basis, of an Internal Revenue Service criminal tax investigation. That investigation, of appellant Vincent Sapere and his father, Dominic Sapere, led to the former's conviction for willful failure to file a tax return under 26 U.S.C. § 7203...

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