United States v. Willard S. Carlock, Sr., Mitchell J. Scimemi, Willard S. Carlock, Jr., and Columbus J. Laird

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

This appeal attacks convictions of certain labor leaders and union members in a jury trial of a sixty count indictment charging violations of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and the Taft-Hartley Act, extortion and obstruction of justice. We first describe generally the charged conduct and, after describing the indictment, we treat the specific attacks of each defendant. Finally, we affirm on all counts.

I

By the government’s evidence, during the 1970’s Southwestern Louisiana was an area of labor unrest characterized by violence…