United States v. Polizzi

BROWNING, Circuit Judge:

I concur in the portions of this opinion prepared by Judges Renfrew and Duniway.

XI. Unitary Crime Contentions

Appellants argue that “this case concerns a unitary event- — -the maintenance of Vegas Frontier Inc. from *897July 27, 1967 to November 27, 1967,” and therefore conviction and punishment on a count charging conspiracy and several counts charging substantive offenses was improper.1 The argument includes two propositions: that Congress did not intend to make conspiracy to violate 18 U.S.C. § 1952 a separate crime from the substantive offense; and that Congress did not…