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UNITED STATES v. CAPORALE

Nos. 82-5964, 85-5670.

806 F.2d 1487 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James CAPORALE, Alfred Pilotto, Seymour A. Gopman, Bernard Rubin, George Wuagneux, Salvatore Tricario, Louis C. Ostrer, and John Giardiello, Defendants-Appellants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Seymour GOPMAN, Salvatore Tricario, George Wuagneux, Louis C. Ostrer, John Giardiello, James Caporale, Alfred Pilotto and Bernard Rubin, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 31, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald A. Dion, North Miami, Beach, Fla., for Gopman.

Thomas Decker, Chicago, Ill., for Tricario.

John C. Mattes, Appellate Federal Public Defender, Miami, Fla., for Wuagneux.

Clifford B. Hark, Miami, Fla., for Ostrer.

Barry M. Fallick, Rochman, Platzer & Fallick, New York City, for Giadiello and Rubin.

Carl M. Walsh, Chicago, Ill., E. David Rosen, Miami, Fla., for Pilotto.

Hugh B. Arnold, John J. Toomey, Charles A. Linn, Chicago, Ill., for Caporale.

Leon Kellner, U.S. Atty., John M. Owens, Sp. U.S. Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Miami, Fla., William C. Bryson, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of the Sol. Gen., Washington, D.C., for U.S.

Before FAY and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and HOFFMAN, Senior District Judge.

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

This is a consolidated appeal brought by eight defendants-appellants challenging their convictions pursuant to a one count indictment for conspiracy to violate the federal anti-racketeering statute (RICO). All eight appellants were officers of or somehow associated with the Laborers International Union of North America ("the Union"). The government's theory of the case was that the defendants-appellants conspired to receive kickbacks from various...

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