OPINION OF THE COURT
STAPLETON, Circuit Judge:
I.
The United States appeals from an order acquitting the defendants on two counts of a multicount indictment after a jury had returned guilty verdicts as to those counts. The district court ruled that, as applied to the indictment before it, 18 U.S.C. § 666 was ambiguous. It applied the rule of lenity and concluded that defendants' conduct was outside the ambit of the statute. Alternatively,...
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