Record
Court opinion
1991-06-28
CourtListener (Free Law Project), text of the opinion
United States v. Salerno, 937 F.2d 797 (2d Cir. 1991)
Second Circuit opinion of June 28, 1991 on the 1987-88 Genovese family RICO trial, in which John Tronolone and Milton Rockman of Cleveland were co-defendants; the 'Teamster Case' ended in verdicts of not guilty for Salerno, Tronolone and Rockman.
- Date
- 1991-06-28
- Kind
- court-opinion
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Docket
- Nos. 1586-1601, Dockets 88-1464, 88-1470 to 88-1474, 88-1477, 88-1547, 90-1291 and others (2d Cir.); 937 F.2d 797
- 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, argued May 8, 1991, decided June 28, 1991, rehearing denied September 24, 1991. The caption names, among others, “John Tronolone, a/k/a ‘Peanuts,’ Milton Rockman, a/k/a ‘Maishe.’” The opinion states that “On April 7, 1987, a grand jury for the Southern District of New York charged eleven defendants … in a 35-count third superseding indictment” alleging a racketeering enterprise known as the Genovese family.
Of the parts of the case, it says: “The Teamster Case, which was premised on allegations of fraudulent intervention in the elections of Roy L. Williams and Jackie Presser as general presidents of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, resulted in verdicts of not guilty for all three charged defendants, Salerno, Tronolone, and Rockman.” It adds: “Neither Salerno nor Tronolone was found to have conspired to murder John Simone.”
The verdicts recorded here are the jury’s, as the court reports them. Angelo Lonardo’s 1988 Senate testimony about the Teamsters elections is his own account and is not borne out by these verdicts.