United States v. Milton J. Largent, United States of America v. Jonathon B. Higdon

WEICK, Circuit Judge.

Appellants Largent and Higdon were convicted by a jury in the District Court on two counts of a six-count indictment charging them with the substantive offenses of aiding, abetting, inducing, and causing the use of extortionate means to collect an extension of credit in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 891, 894 and 2. Largent was acquitted on three counts of the indictment charging the commission of other substantive offenses. Both Largent and Higdon were acquitted on the count charging conspiracy to commit the substantive offenses.

Largent received concurrent sentences of four…