United States v. Rastelli, 870 F.2d 822 (2d Cir. 1989)

Second Circuit opinion of March 16, 1989 affirming the convictions of Philip Rastelli, Joseph Massino and others for racketeering in the New York moving industry through Teamsters Local 814.

Date: 1989-03-16
Kind: court-opinion
Source: CourtListener (Free Law Project), text of the opinion
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: 87-1097
Rights: Opinion of a United States court. Works of the federal judiciary are in the public domain in the United States. The text was read on CourtListener.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, docket 87-1097, decided March 16, 1989. Seventeen defendants had been charged in a sixty-four count indictment with leading, managing and taking part in a racketeering enterprise aimed at “the New York moving and storage industry,” through Teamsters Local 814.

The enterprise was alleged to have run “from approximately January 1, 1964, to June 11, 1985.” The court found no merit in the defendants’ contentions and concluded: “The judgments of conviction are affirmed as to all defendants.”

Rastelli was originally named in the Commission case but severed because he was on trial in the Eastern District in another case (868 F.2d 524).

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