James McElroy
A defendant in the 1987 Westies racketeering indictment, tried with James Coonan before Judge Whitman Knapp and sentenced to sixty years, according to the Second Circuit's 1995 opinion.
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- Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal court opinions state. They are works of the United States judiciary, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. No home, family or medical detail is recorded here.
On the record
- 1988-02-11 — United States v. Coonan, 839 F.2d 886: McElroy is among the defendants on whose behalf counsel appeared in the Government's mandamus proceeding during the trial.
- 1988 — United States v. Bokun (1995): among the sentences Judge Knapp imposed, "James McElroy, sixty years' imprisonment."
- 1991-07-16 — United States v. Coonan, 938 F.2d 1553: McElroy is named among the eight co-defendants tried before Judge Knapp, of whom "All but one ... were convicted." The opinion's recital of the evidence at Kelly's later trial also names him in its account of the Leone killing and of threats to a Teamsters local.
No opinion filed here states a position for McElroy in the group, so no role is set. The 1991 opinion’s account of acts it attributes to him is a recital of evidence at another defendant’s trial and is left on the opinion’s page. His personal relationships, which the 1995 opinion mentions in passing, are not repeated.
Records
itemUnited States v. Bokun, 73 F.3d 8 (2d Cir. 1995): the sentence of a Westies defendantSecond Circuit opinion of December 27, 1995 reversing a reduction of William Bokun's sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and reinstating his thirty-five-year term. Its background summarizes the Westies prosecution and the sentences imposed in 1988.itemUnited States v. Coonan, 839 F.2d 886 (2d Cir. 1988): mandamus petition during the Westies trialSecond Circuit opinion of February 11, 1988 giving its reasons for denying the Government's mandamus petition against Judge Knapp's proposed jury charge. It describes the indictment, filed September 17, 1987, against ten defendants alleged to be members of "the Westies."itemUnited States v. Coonan, 938 F.2d 1553 (2d Cir. 1991): the appeal of Kevin KellySecond Circuit opinion of July 16, 1991 affirming Kevin Kelly's racketeering and related convictions. Its background recites the trial evidence about the "Westies," a group the court places in the Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan.