Record
Court opinion
1983-05-20
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United States v. Riccobene, 709 F.2d 214 (3d Cir. 1983)
Third Circuit opinion of May 20, 1983 on a RICO prosecution, built largely on FBI wiretaps at three Philadelphia locations from 1972 to 1978, of an enterprise the court says Angelo Bruno headed, with Philip Testa as underboss.
- Date
- 1983-05-20
- Kind
- court-opinion
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Docket
- Nos. 82-1399, 82-1410, 82-1411, 82-1412, 82-1413
- 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, Third Circuit, decided May 20, 1983 and amended June 13, 1983; argued March 16, 1983. The appeals of Harry Riccobene, Joseph Ciancaglini and others arose from a RICO prosecution covering 1972 to 1978, based largely on FBI wiretaps at three Philadelphia locations.
The court describes the charged enterprise: “Angelo Bruno, a named co-conspirator, headed the enterprise; the ‘underboss’ was co-defendant Philip Testa. Supervisors in the enterprise, who worked under Testa, included appellant Harry Riccobene, co-defendants Frank Narducci and Carl Ippolito, and co-conspirators Nicodemo Scarfo, John Simone and Frank Sindone.” Bruno was a named co-conspirator, not a defendant.
The court adds: “By the time the trial took place, a number of the co-conspirators and defendants had been killed, including Bruno, Testa, Narducci, Sindone and Simone.” It is the earliest federal opinion in this archive that describes the Bruno-era organization. The statements about who headed the enterprise are the court’s account of the case the Government proved at trial.