United States v. Sidney Muskovsky and Michael Posner

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• acknowledging that the defendant could not be convicted of 17 conspiracy based solely on his own uncorroborated admissions made after the 18 conspiracy ended
• finding effect on interstate commerce based on the use of interstate telephone calls to verify credit card transactions
• use of interstate telephone system to attain credit card approvals significantly related to prostitution activities
• “[T]he government must show [only] that the defendant ‘was aware of the essential nature and scope of the enterprise and intended to participate in it.’ ” (citation omitted)
• defendant’s use of telephone and purchase of supplies from out-of-state companies sufficient to satisfy this jurisdictional element
• “Initially, we note that if the district court’s instruction was error, it was error that was invited by the Defendants. … Where error is invited, not even plain error permits reversal.”

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