Legal Opinion
United States v. Ilario M.A. Zannino
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 10, 1990No. 87-1221PublishedCited by 2,847 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In 1983, defendant-appellant Ilario M.A. Zannino, allegedly a predominant figure in the so-called “Patriarca Family” of La Cosa Nostra, was indicted by a federal grand jury. The indictment charged Zannino and several codefendants with conspiring to participate in an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c), (d), and with a number of racketeering, loansharking, and gambling violations. The listed predicate acts included two murders and four conspiracies to commit murder. Zannino stood trial after the others, 1 and then, on…
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