Legal Opinion
United States v. Willie H. Dennis
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 29, 1980No. 79-1278PublishedCited by 395 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge.
Willie H. Dennis appeals his conviction 1 on twelve counts of an eighteen-count indictment charging seventeen violations of the Extortionate Credit Transactions Act (ECT), 18 U.S.C. §§ 892, 894 (1976) and one obstruction of justice under 18 U.S.C. § 1503. We affirm.
From September 10, 1962, through October 2, 1978, Dennis was employed by the General Motors Assembly Division in St. Louis, Missouri. Beginning at least as early as 1970, Dennis started lending money to fellow plant workers and others at twenty-five percent a week interest, a practice which he continued…
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