U.S. v. KATTAR

No. 87-1172.

840 F.2d 118 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. George T. KATTAR, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 22, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Avery with whom Ellen K. Wade and Avery & Friedman, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendant, appellant.

Gary C. Crossen, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Frank L. McNamara, Jr., Acting U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellee.

Before COFFIN and BREYER, Circuit Judges, and CAFFREY, Senior District Judge.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant George Kattar was indicted in 1986 on three counts of wire fraud, one count of stolen or fraudulently taken monies, and one count of extortion under the Hobbs Act (18 U.S.C. § 1951). The trial court granted a motion for judgment of acquittal on one of the fraud counts at the close of the government's case. Following a thirteen-day trial, the appellant was acquitted of all remaining counts except the extortion charge, on which...

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