United States v. Robert E. Delano

How courts have described this case

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• reversing RICO convictions where the seventeen invalidated predicate acts of larceny by extortion “represented the bulk of th[e] RICO prosecution, eclipsing all else.”
• reviewing sufficiency argument for plain error after holding that defendant, who raised specific sufficiency challenges below, forfeited all other sufficiency challenges
• reviewing a defendant’s claim for plain error because the defendant, in his initial Rule 29 motion, “stated a ground different from what he now urges on appeal”
• affirming defendant’s conviction by noting that he was not only an agent of the parks department but also an agent of the city, thereby making him an agent of an organization from which he stole funds
• change from \City of Buffalo Parks Department\ to the \City of Buffalo\ did not materially alter the indictment
• tree removal company removed trees with the understanding that the official would assign jobs “which the company ordinarily would not have received”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).