UNITED STATES v. CLEMENTE

No. S 79 Cr. 0142 (LBS).

482 F.Supp. 102 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America v. Michael CLEMENTE, Tino Fiumara, Thomas Buzzanca, Vincent Colluci, Carol Gardner, Michael Copolla, Manuel Castelo, Jr., Joseph Castelo, Castelo & Sons Ship Servicing, Inc., Gerald Swanton, George Zappola, Robert Melli, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

October 11, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U. S. Atty. for the Southern District of New York by Michael S. Devorkin, and Daniel H. Bookin, Asst. U. S. Attys., New York City, for plaintiff.

Paul A. Victor, New York City, for defendant Clemente.

Patricia Costello and Dennis D. S. McAlevy, Hoboken, N. J., for defendant Fiumara.

Gilbert Rosenthal, New York City, for defendant Buzzanca.

Michael Ascher and Dino D. Bliablias, Newark, N. J., for defendant Colucci.

Joseph A. Hayden, Jr., Newark, N. J., and Raymond M. Brown, Jersey City, N. J., for defendants Gardner and Copollia.

Leonard Meyerson, Jersey City, N. J., for defendant M. Castelo, Jr.

John P. Nulty, Newark, N. J., for defendant J. Castelo.

John R. Bartels, Jr., White Plains, N. Y., for defendant Castelo and Sons Ship Service.

James T. Owens, Newark, N. J., for defendant Swanton.


SAND, District Judge.

Defendants have moved to suppress evidence obtained by the Government as the result of electronic surveillance. Two types of electronic surveillance were conducted pursuant to court orders issued under Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C. sections 2510-2520 (1976): oral surveillance, i. e., "bugging" of the premises, and telephone wiretaps. Defendants' principal legal contention is that the prolonged...

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