Opinion ID: 629120
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The Counts Relating to Bud Kearney, Inc.

Text: 25 Counts V, VI and VII related to the Kearney transactions. Count V charged Coyne with violating 18 U.S.C. Sec. 371 by conspiring with Kearney to accept and offer the 1984 Ford LTD in order to influence and reward Coyne in connection with the Mercury Sable bid, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 666(a)(1)(B), (a)(2). Count V also charged that Coyne violated 18 U.S.C. Sec. 371 by conspiring with Coyne to commit mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1341, citing as overt acts Kearney's use of the mail to request funds for the Five Chiefs Dive Team and Coyne's placing of two telephone calls to Kearney from California approximately six weeks prior to the delivery of the Ford LTD. Count VI charged Coyne with committing mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1341, alleging that Coyne used the mails to execute a scheme to obtain money and property from Albany County by means of false and fraudulent pretenses. It charged that this scheme caused Albany County to purchase cars from Bud Kearney at priceshigher than those offered by competitors and that it caused Albany County unnecessarily to fund a dive team where previously none had been funded by the County, and where there was already one functional dive team in existence. Count VII charged Coyne with violating 18 U.S.C. Secs. 666(a)(1)(B) and 2 by accepting the Ford LTD from Kearney, intending to be influenced and rewarded in connection with the purchase of the 1988 Mercury Sable, the purchase of other cars by Albany County, and the funding of the dive rescue team.