United States v. Rastelli

SIFTON, District Judge.

The sixty-four count indictment in this case charges seventeen defendants with a variety of offenses under federal law relating to their involvement in the furniture moving business. The case is now before this Court on various defendants’ pretrial motions which are described and discussed below. 1

The 64 counts alleged in the indictment may be summarized as follows:

Count 1 (the RICO count) charges that from on or about January 1,1964, until the filing of the indictment defendants Philip Rastelli, Nicholas Marangello, Joseph Mas-sino, Anthony Ficarotta, Carmine Rastelli,…