People v. Giordano

O’Brien, J. P.,

concurs in part by voting to reverse the defendants’ convictions for conspiracy in the fifth degree and *818to dismiss that count of the indictment, and dissents in part by voting to reverse the defendants’ convictions for promoting gambling in the first degree and to dismiss the indictment in the following memorandum, with which Santucci, J., concurs. This appeal involves illegal gambling operations in New York and Nassau Counties. Louis Cavalieri a participant in the Nassau operation (hereinafter the Meacham operation), was under investigation by the Nassau County police, who…