United States v. William Jones, Dwayne Frederick and Alson Schmidt

How courts have described this case

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• upholding convictions for Hobbs Act conspiracy and substantive violations where government funds intended to purchase drugs were stolen from undercover agent
• Hobbs Act applies when assets are depleted, \thus affecting [the] ability to purchase a commodity that travels in interstate commerce.\
• \It is of no moment therefore that the commodity traveling in interstate commerce is illegal under federal law.\
• “It is of no moment therefore that the commodity traveling in interstate commerce is illegal under federal law.”
• interstate commerce affected by robbery of $9,000 from narcotics buyer, depleting his assets and thereby limiting his ability to make future purchases of cocaine, “a commodity that travels in interstate commerce”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).