Legal Opinion
United States v. Mergen
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 21, 2014No. 12-2873-crPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENNIS JACOBS, Circuit Judge:
Volkan Mergen appeals from a judgment of conviction entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Garaufís, J.). Mergen had been for years a paid FBI informant operating inside mob families. In 2006, he participated with mob members in an arson without giving the FBI a pre-arranged signal that would have allowed the agency to abort the crime. (The government suspected that Mergen feared his status as a paid informant would end if the FBI, forewarned, intervened.) On June 5, 2006, Mergen entered into a cooperation agreement with…
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