Legal Opinion
United States v. Ashman
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 30, 1992No. Nos. 91-2390, 91-2406, 91-2462, 91-2488, 91-2524, 91-2590, 91-2676, 91-2677, 91-2708 and 91-2709PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Chief Judge.
In this rather complex appeal, we review the claims of ten defendants, traders and brokers of soybean futures contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade (“CBOT”), who were convicted of various offenses including conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”) (18 U.S.C. § 1962(c)), substantive RICO offenses (18 U.S.C. § 1962(d)), mail and wire fraud (18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1343), and sundry infractions of the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”) (7 U.S.C. §§ 6b, 6c, and 13c(a)). The final indictment *475included 320 counts; the trial lasted almost…
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