United States v. Standard Drywall Corp.

Opinion and Order

MALETZ, Senior Judge. 1

Defendants in this criminal action have made a series of pretrial motions. The background is this. On January 14, 1985, a grand jury charged one corporation and ten individuals, 2 in a forty-eight-count indictment, with one violation of the conspiracy statute (18 U.S.C. § 371 (1982)); four sub stantive mail frauds (id. § 1341); three violations of the Taft-Hartley Act (29 U.S.C. § 186 (1982)); one obstruction of justice (18 U.S.C. § 1503 (1982)); a conspiracy within the meaning of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) (id. §…