United States v. Marcus

OPINION

MESSITTE, District Judge.

I

In this ease, joining the nearly unanimous opinion of courts that have spoken to the issue, the Court holds that a prosecutor’s use of a wired informant for the purpose of recording conversations with the represented target of a criminal investigation, even to the point of suggesting topics to be discussed, does not violate professional disciplinary rules. Accordingly, the Court denies the motions of the several Defendants to suppress certain wire recordings.

II

In the late 1980s, Congress launched an investigation into reported widespread abuses in the generic…