United States v. Ferrara

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HURLEY, District Judge.

By letter motion dated October 8, 1997, defendant seeks the following items of relief:

1. Dismissal of the indictment for its purported failure to allege a federal crime;

2. Dismissal of the indictment upon the ground that it is the product of defective grand jury proceedings or, alternatively, an order directing an in camera inspection of the grand jury minutes to determine the adequacy of the proceedings before that body;

3. A determination that the statute which defendant is charged with violating, to wit, 18 U.S.C. § 666 (“Section 666”), violates…