U.S. v. ZANNINO

No. 87-1221.

895 F.2d 1 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Ilario M.A. ZANNINO, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 10, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Balliro, with whom Edward J. Romano was on brief for defendant, appellant.

Frank J. Marine, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Ernest Dinisco, Sp. Atty., Dept. of Justice, and Wayne A. Budd, U.S. Atty., were on brief for the United States.

Before BOWNES, BREYER and SELYA, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

In 1983, defendant-appellant Ilario M.A. Zannino, allegedly a predominant figure in the so-called "Patriarca Family" of La Cosa Nostra, was indicted by a federal grand jury. The indictment charged Zannino and several codefendants with conspiring to participate in an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c), (d), and with a number of racketeering, loansharking, and gambling violations. The...

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