U.S. v. CARDASCIA

Nos. 108-112, Dockets 90-1541, 90-1721, 91-1037, 91-1039 and 91-1040.

951 F.2d 474 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Carl CARDASCIA; Ronald Martorelli; Gabriel Peluso; Anthony DelVecchio; Jilly Rizzo; Donald Sheppard; Marc Bateman; Donald Laauwe; Frank Nigrelle; Stephen Metz; Grace Celentano; Vincent Ciarlone, Defendants, Carl Cardascia; Marc Bateman; Ronald Martorelli; Donald Sheppard and Jilly Rizzo, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 5, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Apicella, Brooklyn, N.Y., for defendant-appellant Carl Cardascia.

John H. Doyle, New York City (Jordan W. Siev, Carol Schlitt, Anderson Kill Olick & Oshinsky, P.C., of counsel), for defendant-appellant Marc Bateman.

Dominic F. Amorosa, New York City, for defendant-appellant Jilly Rizzo.

Paul Brenner, New York City, for defendant-appellant Ronald Martorelli.

Susan Corkery, Asst. U.S. Atty. E.D. New York, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Andrew J. Maloney, U.S. Atty., Emily Berger and Virginia Evans, Asst. U.S. Attys., Steven M. Gold, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty., of counsel), for appellee U.S.

Before OAKES, Chief Judge, FEINBERG and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.


CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal reveals delineated plans in which different individuals in their haste to get rich committed numerous frauds and misapplied bank funds. Appellants are swindlers who created sham schemes and the bank officers who received commissions under-the-table for loaning the bank's money to them. In doing so they proved the truth of Samuel Johnson's dictum: "Avarice is a uniform vice ... to the favour of the covetous there is a ready way...

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