U.S. v. BASCIANO

Docket No. 09-0281-cr.

599 F.3d 184 (2010)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Vincent BASCIANO, also known as Vinny Gorgeous, also known as Vinny from the Bronx, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 23, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Goltzer (Jane Simkin Smith, Millbrook, NY, and Richard Jasper, New York, NY, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.

Taryn A. Merkl, Assistant United States Attorney (David C. James, John D. Buretta, Nicole Argentieri, Cristina Posa, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Benton J. Campbell, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, for Appellee.

Before: WALKER, McLAUGHLIN, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.


REENA RAGGI, Circuit Judge:

Defendant Vincent Basciano is presently serving a sentence of life imprisonment as a result of conviction after jury trials in 2006 and 2007 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Nicholas G. Garaufis, Judge) on charges of conspiratorial and substantive racketeering relating to his participation in the Bonanno organized crime family ("Bonanno crime family" or "Family").1

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