Opinion ID: 792547
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Text: 1 These matters come on before this court on partially consolidated appeals following convictions at a jury trial in the district court on December 17, 2001, and the subsequent entry of judgments of convictions and sentences on July 10, 2003, as to Joseph Lore, July 25, 2003, as to Denise Bohn, and October 31, 2003, as to Joseph Pelliccia and William Hurley. The case originated on June 2, 1999, when a grand jury returned an indictment against Bohn, Eugene G'Sell and John Angelone charging them with conspiracy to embezzle funds from Local 1588 of the International Longshoremen's Association (the union or Local 1588), contrary to the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, 29 U.S.C. § 501(c) (section 501(c)), in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. Subsequently, a grand jury returned a superseding indictment on December 19, 2000, charging defendants-appellants, Lore, Bohn, Pelliccia and Hurley (collectively, defendants), along with Thomas Rackley, who is not a party on these appeals, among other things, with conspiracy to embezzle and embezzlement of funds from Local 1588. In these proceedings, defendants appeal from their convictions by challenging numerous rulings by the district court made prior to, during, and after their three-week trial that began in November 2001. Lore and Bohn, but not Pelliccia and Hurley, also challenge their sentences in light of United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. ___, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005).