Legal Opinion
United States v. Daniel P. Taglia and Robert J. McDonnell
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 11, 1991No. 89-2188, 89-2931 and 89-3638PublishedCited by 283 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Daniel Taglia and Robert McDonnell were convicted by a jury of labor racketeering and sentenced to four and six years in prison, respectively.
Taglia was an acquaintance both of McDonnell, a lawyer, and of Robert Blessing, the nephew of an official , of a local union. Taglia and McDonnell conspired— so the jury could, and did, find — to bribe officials of the union to award a contract to McDonnell to furnish the union’s members with prepaid legal services financed by a deduction from wages. Blessing was to put Taglia and McDonnell into contact with his uncle. But Blessing…
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