Legal Opinion
United States v. Eisen
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 17, 1992No. Nos. 1311 through 1313, 1315, 1324, 1325, 1327 and 1491, Dockets 91-1549(L), 91-1551 through 91-1555, 91-1633 and 92-1032PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal of RICO convictions arising from a law firm’s fraudulent con*251duct of civil litigation as plaintiff’s counsel in personal injury cases. The appeal is brought by Morris J. Eisen, Joseph P. Na-poli, Harold M. Fishman, Dennis Relia, Marty Gabe, Geraldine G. Morganti, and Alan Weinstein from judgments of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Charles P. Sif-ton, Judge), following a four-month jury trial. We affirm.
Background
Morris J. Eisen, P.C. (“the Eisen firm”) was a large Manhattan law firm that specialized in…
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