UNITED STATES v. MUSCARELLA

Nos. 77-2120 to 77-2122.

585 F.2d 242 (1978)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Fred MUSCARELLA, Carl Veller, Anthony Vymola and Ronald More, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 20, 1978.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied October 20, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick A. Tuite, Chicago, Ill., Julius L. Echeles, Chicago, Ill., John T. Theis, William J. Martin, and Robert A. Merrick, for defendants-appellants.

William G. Otis, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before SPRECHER and WOOD, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied October 20, 1978.

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Following a jury trial, defendants-appellants Muscarella, Veller, Vymola and More were convicted of conspiring to and using extortion to collect a gambling debt in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 894.1 In challenging their conviction on appeal the defendants present the following questions...

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