United States v. John Cioffi Mussare, Iii, A/K/A J.J. John Cioffi Mussare, III

OPINION

COWEN, Circuit Judge.

John Cioffi Mussare, and a co-defendant, William R. Bruce, III, were charged in an indictment with various drug and extortion crimes. They were convicted of one count of conspiring to distribute marijuana, as well as two counts of using extortionate means to collect an extension of credit in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 894. Mussare appeals, raising various constitutional and ev-identiary challenges to the extortion convictions. 1 He also appeals his sentence. We will affirm.

I

On January 21, 2000, Clinton James Taylor, Bruce, and Mussare met at an all-night party in…