United States v. George B. Riley

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:

George B. Riley, President of the City National Bank of Cocoa, Florida, was convicted of unlawfully receiving a fee and commission for a loan from that bank, 18 U.S.C. Section 215. 1 He contends that the trial court erred in refusing to grant a motion for a new trial on the basis of newly discovered evidence, or alternatively that the trial court erred in refusing him permission to conduct post-verdict interviews of the jurors. We affirm.

Viewed in the light favorable to the verdict, the circumstances surrounding the making of the loan are as follows: In the spring of…