United States v. Frank Sacco and Benjamin Gentile

NEAHER, District Judge:

Frank Sacco and Benjamin Gentile appeal from judgments of conviction entered upon jury verdicts returned on September 26, 1972 after a nine-day trial in the Southern District of New York before the Honorable Lee P. Gagliardi, District Judge. Appellants were found guilty of one count of making an extortionate extension of $1,000 credit and, along with a co-defendant John Rhines, not a party to this appeal, of one count of conspiring to participate in the use of and five counts of using extortionate means to collect extensions of credit, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 891,…