Opinion ID: 760471
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Motions for Dismissal of Indictment or New Trial

Text: 28 This Court's recent decision in Orena, 145 F.3d at 560-61, has entirely disposed of Persico's and Zambardi's motions for dismissal of the indictment or a new trial (in Zambardi's case, an original trial). That decision held that the Scarpa disclosures did not warrant the new trials that Chief Judge Sifton had ordered for the three co-defendants tried with Persico. See id. A fortiori, we are compelled to rule that the disclosures do not warrant a new trial for Persico or Zambardi, of whose guilt the District Court found sufficient independent evidence to deny their motions. See Persico, 1997 WL 867788, at  32. 29 For the same reasons articulated in Orena, 145 F.3d at 560, we also affirm the District Court's denial of both Persico's and Zambardi's motions to dismiss the indictment for outrageous government conduct. As indicated in that opinion, Chief Judge Sifton's analysis of the Government's conduct, see 1997 WL 867788, at  18- 24, was sound, and we agree with him that the Government's actions do not warrant either dismissal of the indictment or a new trial. See Orena, 145 F.3d at 560.