U.S. v. BAILEY

No. 95-2504.

97 F.3d 982 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard BAILEY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 9, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Rand Elden, Chief of Appeals and Ronald Safer (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Allan A. Ackerman (argued), Chicago, IL, Thomas A. Durkin, Michigan City, IN, and Jo-Anne Wolfson, Tampa, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and FLAUM and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.


FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Richard Bailey appeals the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment he received after the district court determined that, as part of his racketeering activities, Bailey conspired to murder and solicited the murder of candy empire heiress Helen Vorhees Brach. We affirm.

I.

For approximately two decades, Richard Bailey and his confederates engaged in a pattern of racketeering schemes, using Chicago-area stables to defraud wealthy...

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