United States v. Pimental

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

This workers’ compensation insurance fraud criminal case produced an appeal from both sides. The government appeals the district court’s dismissal of two counts on which a jury had convicted, while the defendant cross-appeals on the ground that the entire case should have been dismissed because of an alleged violation of the grand jury secrecy rule, embodied in Fed.R.Crim.P. 6(e). We conclude, despite the able representation of Pimental, that (1) the district court erred in dismissing the two counts and we reinstate the jury convictions and conclude that (2) there was no…