United States v. Allen

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

This case—the first criminal appeal related to the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) to reach this (or any) Court of Appeals—presents the question, among others, whether testimony given by an individual involuntarily under the legal compulsion of a foreign power may be used against that individual in a criminal case in an American court. As employees in the London office of Coóperatieve Céntrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. (“Rabo-bank”) in the 2000s, defendants-appellants Anthony Allen and Anthony Conti (“Defendants”) played roles in that bank’s LIBOR…