Legal Opinion
United States v. John D. Rogers
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 2, 1997No. 95-5351PublishedCited by 135 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MOORE, Circuit Judge.
John Rogers, a former Kentucky State Senator, appeals his convictions for conspiracy to commit extortion and attempted extortion under color of official right in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Counts One and Two), mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1346 (Count Three), and making a materially false statement to a federal agent in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Count Four). For the reasons that follow, we affirm Rogers’s convictions.
I. BACKGROUND
In 1983, Rogers, State Senator Frank Miller, and lobbyists Jay Spurrier and William Wester agreed to accept…
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