United States v. Samuel Fiore

McENTEE, Circuit Judge.

Defendant was convicted on two counts of an indictment charging him with violations of the federal anti-loan sharking law. Each count charged that on a specific occasion in November 1969 in North Reading, Massachusetts, the defendant expressly and implicitly threatened the use of violence to cause harm to the person of one Hubert J. Sweeney, the debtor, to collect and attempt to collect extensions of credit from said Sweeney in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 894 (Supp.V, 1970). 1

The relevant facts are as follows. In 1963 or early 1964 Sweeney, an insurance broker, after…