UNITED STATES v. BALISTRIERI

Nos. 84-2001, 84-2004 and 84-2012.

779 F.2d 1191 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Frank Peter BALISTRIERI, Steve DiSalvo, and Dennis Librizzi, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 12, 1985.

As Corrected November 26, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan Z. Dershowitz, Alan M. Dershowitz, Dershowitz & Eiger, P.C., New York City, Stephen M. Glynn, Shellow, Shellow & Glynn, S.C., Milwaukee, Wis., for defendants-appellants.

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

Before ESCHBACH and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.

Appellants were convicted of conducting an illegal gambling business, conspiracy to conduct such a business, and (except DiSalvo) willful failure to file certain tax forms, and they now appeal. We affirm their convictions.

I.

The convictions we review today arose out of a lengthy and painstaking government investigation of organized sports gambling activities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1977 into 1980. The government collected...

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