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UNITED STATES v. ALEXANDRO

No. 860, Docket 81-1435.

675 F.2d 34 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Alexander A. ALEXANDRO, Jr., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 18, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel Winograd, New York City, for appellant.

Laura A. Brevetti, Sp. Atty., E. D. N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y. (Edward R. Korman, U. S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y., Thomas P. Puccio, Attorney-in-Charge, Dept. of Justice, Organized Crime Strike Force, E. D. N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for appellee.

Before KAUFMAN and PIERCE, Circuit Judges, and HAIGHT, District Judge.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

Acknowledging that "corruptio optima pessima,"1 — the best men corrupted become the worst — courts have permitted Government agents, in the public interest, to employ artifice to apprehend public servants who abuse the trust invested in them by virtue of their position. The line between lawful subterfuge and excessive Government involvement in violation of the due

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