UNITED STATES v. CLEMENTE

S 79 Cr. 142 (LBS).

494 F.Supp. 1310 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, v. Michael CLEMENTE, Tino Fiumara, Thomas Buzzanca, Vincent Colucci, Carol Gardner, Michael Copolla, Gerald Swanton, Defendants.

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

July 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Martin, Jr., U. S. Atty., New York City, S. D. N. Y. by Michael S. Devorkin, and Daniel H. Bookin, Asst. U. S. Attys., New York City, Paul A. Victor, Alan Dershowitz, and Nathan Dershowitz, New York City, for defendant Clemente.

Dennis D. S. McAlevy, Hobakin, N. J., for defendant Fiumara.

Gilbert Rosenthal, and Irving Anolik, New York City, for defendant Buzzanca.

Dino D. Bliablias, Newark, N. J., and Carl M. Bornstein, New York City, for defendant Colucci.

Martin S. Goldman, East Orange, N. J., for defendant Gardner.

Joseph A. Hayden, Jr., Newark, N. J., for defendant Copolla.

Thomas Durkin, Jr., Newark, N. J., and James Mahoney, West Orange, N. J., for defendant Swanton.


OPINION

SAND, District Judge.

After an eleven week trial, defendants Clemente, Fiumara, Buzzanca, Colucci and Gardner were convicted by a jury, on May 2, 1980, of violating the Taft-Hartley Act, 29 U.S.C. Section 186 and 18 U.S.C. Section 2, the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. Section 1951 and 18 U.S.C. Section 2, the federal Racketeering [RICO] Statute, 18 U.S.C. Section 1962(c),1 and of conspiring to violate the RICO Statute, 18 U.S.C...

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