United States v. Irving Jones, Michael Burnett, Howard Krantz and Steven Brown

Steven Brown appeals from a judgment of the United' States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Gleeson, J.), convicting him of conspiring to use and using the United States mail to commit murder-for-hire, and of using a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1958, 2, and 924(c). Following a five-week jury trial, Brown was convicted,' along with several co-defendants, of the contract murder of Valerie Vassell, who was a cooperating witness in a New York State bank fraud case against original defendant-appellant Michael Burnett.…