Marcello

MEMORANDUM

By an order dated November 27, 1981, this court denied defendants’ motion to suppress evidence and for an evidentiary hearing on the motion to suppress. Defendants are charged in a three count indictment with conspiring to bribe United States District Judge Harry Pregerson of the Central District of California in order to obtain favorable treatment for defendant Sciortino and others in a criminal prosecution over which Judge Pregerson was presiding.

This motion was brought by defendant Marcello and joined in by the other two defendants. The defendants seek to suppress evidence obtained by the government as a result of certain court ordered wire and oral interceptions. The first interceptions relevant to this motion were authorized in connection with what has come to be referred to as the “Brilab” investigation by the United States District Court in the District of Columbia on May 4, 1979. This authorization covered a telephone listed to one I. Irving Davidson, was extended by that court on June 13, August 20, and September 22, 1979. Additional wire and oral interception authorizations were issued in the Eastern District of Louisiana. These covered defendant Marcello’s…