UNITED STATES v. RUGGIERO

Nos. 1158, 1362, 1168 and 1363, Docket 82-1395, 82-1396, 82-1398 and 82-1399.

726 F.2d 913 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Benjamin RUGGIERO, Nicholas Santora, Anthony Rabito, and Antonio Tomasulo, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Final Briefs Submitted November 3, 1983.

Decided January 18, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara S. Jones, Asst. U.S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., New York City (John S. Martin, Jr., U.S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., Gerard E. Lynch, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Robert Koppelman, (Edward M. Chikofsky, Russo Silverman & Vitaliano, of counsel) New York City, for defendant-appellant Ruggiero.

Frank A. Lopez, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Meyer & Light, Brooklyn, N.Y., of counsel), for defendant-appellant Santora.

Paul Rao, Jr., New York City, for defendant-appellant Rabito.

Irwin Klein, New York City, for defendant-appellant Tomasulo.

Before NEWMAN and PRATT, Circuit Judges, METZNER, District Judge.


GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

Appellants Benjamin Ruggiero, Nicholas Santora, Antonio Tomasulo, and Anthony Rabito appeal from judgments of conviction entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, after a six-week jury trial before Hon. Robert W. Sweet. Their indictment and convictions resulted from a six-year investigation into the Bonanno organized crime family that had uncovered evidence of a wide range of criminal activities...

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