U.S. v. BIAGGI

Nos. 892, 918, Dockets 87-1484, 87-1501.

853 F.2d 89 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Mario BIAGGI and Meade Esposito, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 1, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward A. McDonald, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Andrew J. Maloney, U.S. Atty., E.D.N.Y., Leonard Michaels, Sp. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y., on the brief), for appellee.

John L. Pollok, New York City (Mark A. Summers, Charles L. Weintraub, Susan C. Wolfe, Mark Baker, Todtman, Hoffman, Epstein, Young, Goldstein, Tunick & Pollok, P.C., New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant Mario Biaggi.

Edward Brodsky, New York City (Thomas H. Sear, Robert J.A. Zito, Maria L. Ciampi, Spengler Carlson Gubar Brodsky & Frischling, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant Meade Esposito.

Charles Tiefer, Deputy General Counsel to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. (Steven R. Ross, General Counsel to the Clerk, Janina Jaruzelski, Asst. Counsel to the Clerk, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for the Speaker and Bipartisan Leadership Group of the U.S. House of Representatives as amici curiae.

Before TIMBERS, KEARSE, and FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judges.


KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Defendants Mario Biaggi and Meade Esposito appeal from judgments of conviction entered after a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York before Jack B. Weinstein, then-Chief Judge. Biaggi was convicted on one count of accepting gratuities for official acts, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 201(g) (1982) (current version at 18 U.S.C. § 201(c)(1)(B) (Supp. IV 1986)); one count of use of interstate...

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