United States v. Warnell Vega, A/K/A Skippy

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

The ten appellants in this case seek reversal of their convictions, following trial before a jury and Chief Judge Mishler in the Eastern District of New York, for conspiring to import narcotics into the United States and to buy, sell, conceal and facilitate the transportation, concealment, and sale of narcotics known to them to have been illegally imported, all in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 174. We find no error and affirm.

The facts, developed in some 4,000 pages of trial transcript, may be briefly summarized for the purpose of considering the appellants’ claims of error.…