United States v. Marcello, 537 F. Supp. 1364 (E.D. La. 1982) (Brilab post-trial opinion)

Judge Sear's opinion denying post-trial motions after an eighteen-week trial in which Carlos Marcello and Charles E. Roemer II were found guilty of the Count One RICO conspiracy and acquitted of the other counts, and their co-defendants were acquitted of all charges.

Date: 1982-04-20
Kind: court-opinion
Source: U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, via CourtListener
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: Crim. A. 80-274
Rights: A federal court opinion. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The text was read on CourtListener; no publisher headnote is used.

Judge Morey L. Sear’s written opinion denies the post-trial motions of Marcello and Roemer. Its background describes “Brilab,” an FBI undercover operation “centering upon suspected illegal activities involving public officials, labor unions and reputed organized crime figures.” The Louisiana phase lasted about a year, from February 1979 to February 1980, using the informant Joseph Hauser and two agents posing as insurance representatives; “more than 130 of the surreptitiously made recordings” were in evidence. The indictment came in summer 1980 and charged twelve counts.

After the trial the jury found Marcello and Roemer guilty of the Count One RICO conspiracy; Marcello “was acquitted on the eleven other counts against him,” and the co-defendants were acquitted of all charges. The recordings and the characterization of the operation are the court’s account of the government’s case.

itemUnited States v. Marcello, 508 F. Supp. 586 (E.D. La. 1981) (Brilab pretrial rulings)Pretrial rulings in the Brilab prosecution of Carlos Marcello, Charles E. Roemer II, I. Irving Davidson, Vincent Marinello and Aubrey Young: motions to dismiss deferred until trial, other substantive motions denied, and rulings on suppression of recorded conversations and on disclosure of an informer.itemUnited States v. Roemer and Marcello, 703 F.2d 805 (5th Cir. 1983)A per curiam opinion affirming the convictions of Charles E. Roemer II and Carlos Marcello for conspiring to violate the RICO statute (Brilab), adopting the trial court's reasoning, decided 11 April 1983.