United States v. Charles Green

HAYS, Circuit Judge:

Raymond Coughlin, Charles Green, Albert Grasso, Neil Pacilio, Carmine Piccora, and Fred Smith appeal from judgments of conviction entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, after a twelve-week jury trial. Appellants were each convicted of conspiring to violate 18 U.S.C. § 659 (1970),1 which prohibits the theft of goods in interstate or foreign commerce. Appellant Coughlin was also convicted of a substantive violation of § 659.2 We affirm.

I

At the trial, the Government introduced evidence of a large-scale conspiracy among the officers…