United States v. Nell

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

Richard Nell, formerly president of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE), Local 675, was convicted by a jury on five counts of embezzling union funds in violation of 29 U.S.C. § 501(c).1 Launching a broad-ranged attack on these convictions, he complains of a pretrial denial of severance, refusals to sustain challenges for cause during the voir dire of prospective jurors, evidentiary rulings, certain instructions to the jury, and the sufficiency of the evidence. Since we agree that the district court abused its discretion in denying two of Nell’s…