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U.S. v. RIOUX

Nos. 1717, 1913, Dockets 95-1542(L), 95-1638(XAP).

97 F.3d 648 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. Alfred J. RIOUX, Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 2, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Keeney, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Investigation Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC (Joseph C. Hutchison, Assistant United States Attorney, District of Connecticut, New Haven, CT, of counsel), John A. Danaher, III, Executive Assistant United States Attorney, Hartford, CT, for Appellee/Cross Appellant.

James A. Wade, Robinson & Cole, Hartford, CT (Craig A. Raabe, Robinson & Cole, Hartford, CT, of counsel), for Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

Before: KEARSE, MAHONEY, and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:

In 1986, the people of Hartford County, Connecticut elected Alfred J. Rioux High Sheriff. Rioux was subsequently accused of extorting funds from the Special Deputy Sheriffs and Deputy Sheriffs whom he appointed in the following years. After a four-week trial in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Ellen Bree Burns, Judge), a jury convicted Rioux of a fraudulent scheme to commit extortion, in violation...

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