United States v. Vancier

LASKER, District Judge.

The defendants move for reconsideration of the court’s holding that the tapes of conversations between a government informant and the defendants, tapes allegedly made with the informant’s consent, were not required to be sealed under 18 U.S.C. § 2518(8)(a), which requires the sealing of tapes of “any wire or oral communication intercepted by any means authorized by this chapter [18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2520].” They argue that “any means authorized by this chapter” includes all lawful means of intercepting oral or wire communications, because “except as otherwise provided in…