United States v. Robert B. Sutton, United States of America v. Mark A. Sucher

Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge MacKINNON.

MacKINNON, Senior Circuit Judge:

Appellants Robert Sutton, who resold crude oil, and Mark Sucher, an employee of the Department of Energy (“DOE”), were convicted of various criminal offenses 1 for their roles in a complicated conspiracy to bribe federal officials in order to obstruct a DOE investigation of Sutton’s companies for noncompliance with price regulations, and to gain confidential information relat ing to DOE settlement negotiations. On appeal Sutton and Sucher assign several grounds as reversible error. Finding none, we…