United States v. Anthony Augello and Frank Sciortino

MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

After a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, appellants and a third co-defendant, Joseph Conigliaro, who has not appealed, were on June 30, 1970, found guilty of knowingly receiving stolen merchandise in foreign commerce in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 659 (Count 2) and of conspiracy to receive the merchandise in violation of that section, 18 U.S.C. § 371 (Count 1). Augello was sentenced to a term of four years imprisonment on Count 1 and seven on Count-2, to run concurrently, and Sciortino to a term of four years on both…