United States v. Triumph Capital Group, Inc., Frederick W. McCarthy Charles B. Spadoni, Lisa A. Thiesfield, Ben F. Andrews

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-Appellant Ben F. Andrews (“defendant” or “Andrews”) appeals from a judgment of conviction entered on June 9, 2005, in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Burns, J.). Following a jury trial, Andrews was convicted of nine counts, including bribery, fraud, money-laundering, and false-statement charges, for his role in former Treasurer of the State of Connecticut Paul Silvester’s allegedly unlawful investment of state pension funds. On appeal Andrews raises a variety of challenges to the conviction. All but one of these challenges…