Source: http://openjurist.org/442/f3d/30/united-states-v-a-giordano
Timestamp: 2013-12-06 21:48:33
Document Index: 614611148

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 2425', '§ 2421', '§ 1958', '§ 10', '§ 78', '§ 2425', '§ 1958', '§ 1958']

442 F. 3d 30 - United States v. A Giordano	Home442 f3d 30 united states v. a giordano
We address the issue of statutory interpretation first. The phrase "any facility or means of interstate . . . commerce" is not defined for purposes of § 2425 or the chapter of which it is a part. See generally 18 U.S.C. §§ 2421-2426. Recently, however, in United States v. Perez, 414 F.3d 302, 304 (2d Cir.2005) (per curiam), we reached the unremarkable conclusion that the national telephone network is a "facility of interstate . . . commerce" for purposes of the federal murder-for-hire statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1958(b)(2). See also Freschi v. Grand Coal Venture, 767 F.2d 1041, 1048 (2d Cir.) (holding without discussion that a telephone network is an "instrumentality of interstate commerce" for purposes of Exchange Act § 10(b), 15 U.S.C. § 78j), vacated on other grounds, 478 U.S. 1015, 106 S.Ct. 3325, 92 L.Ed.2d 731 (1986).7 We see no reason why the result should be different here. We also conclude that § 2425's prohibition on the transmission of the name of a minor "using. . . any facility or means of interstate . . . commerce" for the specified purposes includes the intrastate use of such a facility or means.8 In Perez, we addressed a related question that has divided the circuit courts: whether an intrastate phone call was sufficient to satisfy the jurisdictional element of a prior version of the murder-for-hire statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a), which prohibited "use[]" of a "facility in interstate. . . commerce" for specified purposes.9 Joining the circuits that had held that the term "facility in interstate . . . commerce" was synonymous with the term "facility of interstate . . . commerce" in the definition section of the same statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1958(b)(2), we concluded that intrastate use of the telephone constituted use of a facility of interstate com