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UNITED STATES v. TROPIANO

Nos. 702-704, Dockets 33092-33094.

418 F.2d 1069 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ralph "Whitey" TROPIANO, Lawrence R. Pellegrino and William Grasso, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided November 26, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Daniel Sagarin, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Stewart H. Jones, U. S. Atty., District of Connecticut, on the brief), for appellee.

Abraham Glasser, New York City, for appellant Ralph "Whitey" Tropiano.

Howard T. Owens, Jr., Bridgeport, Conn. (Owens & Schine, Bridgeport, Conn., on the brief), for appellant Lawrence Pellegrino.

Ira B. Grudberg, New Haven, Conn. (Jacobs, Jacobs, Grudberg & Clifford, New Haven, Conn., on the brief), for appellant William Grasso.

Before WATERMAN and HAYS, Circuit Judges, BARTELS, District Judge.

BARTELS, District Judge:

On March 27, 1968, the appellants were indicted in New Haven, Connecticut, in a four-count indictment, charging them with wilfully and knowingly attempting to and actually obstructing, delaying and affecting interstate commerce and the movement of supplies from outside Connecticut by extorting and attempting to extort property from certain refuse removal dealers by the wrongful use of threatened force, violence and fear, in violation of the...

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