United States v. Phillip P. Tomasetta

MeENTEE, Circuit Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction in the district of Massachusetts for violation of the loan sharking provisions of the Consumer Credit Protection Act of 1968 — specifically, participation in the collection of extensions of credit by extortionate means. 18 U.S.C. § 894 (Supp. V, 1970). He argues, inter alia, that the indictment 1 lacks the specificity required by Fed.R.Crim.P. 7(c) and that the statute is unconstitutional. We deal first with the question of the sufficiency of the indictment.

Defendant contends that the indictment is defective because it fails to name…