United States v. Amadio Petito

CARD AMONE, Circuit Judge:

During a grand jury investigation in the Eastern District of New York into illegal payoffs to union leaders of Local 29 of the Blasters, Drillrunners and Miners Union, appellant, Amadio Petito, an officer of that union, was called as a witness and refused to testify. The district court thereupon granted him immunity. 1 When appellant still refused to testify after the grant of immunity, the district court advised him that he would “be held in custody for the life of the Grand Jury, or prior to that at such time as [he] may purge [him]self of contempt by testifying…