U.S. v. SEKHAR

Docket No. 11-4298.

683 F.3d 436 (2012)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Giridhar C. SEKHAR, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 26, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Clyne , Albany, N.Y., for Appellant.

Rajit S. Dosanjh , Assistant United States Attorney ( Elizabeth C. Coombe , Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Syracuse, N.Y., for Appellee.

Before: JACOBS, Chief Judge, B.D. PARKER and HALL, Circuit Judges.


DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:

Giridhar Sekhar was convicted following a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Thomas J. McAvoy, Judge) of [i] attempted extortion of the General Counsel of the New York State Comptroller's Office in violation of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), and [ii] interstate transmission of extortionate threats in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(d). Sekhar had threatened to disclose...

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