Legal Opinion
United States v. Edwin Edwards Stephen Edwards Cecil Brown Andrew Martin Bobby Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 23, 2002No. 01-30036PublishedCited by 177 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:
After a long, complex trial, the former governor of Louisiana, his son, and several of his associates were convicted for their roles in various schemes to make money from Louisiana’s riverboat gambling license process by exploiting the former governor’s apparent ability to influence that process. The defendants appeal their convictions for, inter alia, extortion, mail and wire fraud, money laundering, making false statements, and RICO violations. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.
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Edwin Edwards was a prominent figure in Louisiana politics for more than two…
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