United States v. Veliz, Veliz Novack

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• holding that solicitation of a person to murder a witness is punishable under § 1512(b)
• holding that the offense was not “purely state in nature” and that sufficient evidence supported a federal nexus under § 1512(b)(3) where defendant “committed multiple related crimes across multiple states, with multiple accomplices”
• holding that defendant violated 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(3) when he “attempted to persuade [others] to act in such a way as to prevent [a potential witness] from communicating to the authorities information about” certain offenses
• concluding post-Fowler “that the ‘federal offense’ plus ‘additional appropriate evidence’ framework remains valid in light of Fowler”
• explaining that, even before Fowler, the Second Circuit “applied the same federal nexus test to both subsections ‘because the elements of subsection (b)(3) are similar to the elements of subsection (a)(1)(C)’ ”
• explaining that, even before Fowler, the Second Circuit “applied the same federal nexus test to both subsections ‘because the elements of subsection (b)(3) are similar to the elements of subsection (a)(1)(C)’”

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