United States v. Theodore Persico, Robert Zambardi, and Richard Fusco

JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

These appeals by three defendants who participated in a street war between factions of an organized crime family primarily present issues arising from the Government’s failure, before trial, to disclose both the informant role of a co-conspirator and aspects of an FBI agent’s allegedly outrageous conduct in dealing with the informant. In particular, we are required to apply the standard for granting a motion to withdraw a guilty plea, after conviction but before sentencing, on the ground of newly discovered Brady/Giglio material. These issues arise on appeals from…