Legal Opinion
United States v. Mmr Corporation (La) and James B. Rutland
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 23, 1990No. 89-3526PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
MMR Corporation (LA) and, its president, James B. “Pepper” Rutland, appeal their convictions for conspiracy to rig bids on a Cajun Electric Power Cooperative project in violation of section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1, and for defrauding Cajun Electric on the same project in violation of the mail fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1341. The indictment also charged defendants with aiding and abetting these crimes contrary to 18 U.S.C. § 2.
Defendants attack the convictions on numerous grounds. First, they argue that MMR was not a competitor of the charged…
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