United States v. Lawrence Bursten and Solomon Seidel

In this appeal, defendants Bursten and Seidel contest the sufficiency of the evidence to establish the requisite federal jurisdictional elements of the Travel Act 1 and an evidentiary ruling regarding the willingness of the Government’s key witness to submit to a polygraph test. We affirm.

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Defendants were convicted by a jury under a three count indictment charging one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and two counts of substantive violation of the Travel Act for their use of a facility in interstate commerce in furtherance of a bribery scheme which violated Indiana law. The…