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United States v. Phillips

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided July 14, 2000No. 98-30968PublishedCited by 104 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents evidence of several discrete schemes of local corruption involving ghost employees, payment of salary kickbacks, and misuse of state government funds. Based on this evidence and other related illegal conduct, a federal jury convicted the appellants, Chaney Phillips, the tax assessor for St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, and Emerson C. Newman, a political ally, on all counts of a twenty-count indictment, charging conspiracy, mail fraud, engaging in an illegal monetary transaction, theft involving a federally funded program, money laundering, and…

2Cases cited47 opinions

  1. Pinkerton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
  2. Bourjaily v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  3. Jones v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
  4. New York v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
  5. United States v. Orange Jell BeechumCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978

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3Cited by104 opinions

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  3. United States v. WhitfieldCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2009
  4. United States v. HolmesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2005
  5. United States v. OllisonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2009

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