United States v. Joseph Isgro Raymond Anderson Jeffrey S. Monka

D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge:

Joseph Isgro, Raymond Anderson and Jeffrey Monka (“defendants”) were indicted by a grand jury on government charges that they were involved in a complex scheme to promote certain musical artists illegally through the use of “payola” — payments/bribes to officials at local radio stations — using money allegedly derived from narcotics trafficking. Subsequently, citing prosecutorial misconduct before the grand jury and in pretrial proceedings, the district court dismissed the indictment with prejudice. In so doing, the district court invoked both the defendants’ right…