Lam

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

re Defendant’s Motion to Suppress Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2515

Mei Keng Lam has been charged with participating in illegal gambling activities in violation of 18 U.S.C. section 1955 . Lam now moves to suppress taped telephone conversations, recorded by her co-defendant to serve as receipts for wagers, in which she allegedly places bets with the gambling operation. Having considered the submissions and arguments of the parties, and for the reasons set forth below, the court rules as follows.

BACKGROUND

For purposes of the present motion, the parties have stipulated to the following facts. In the course of an investigation of illegal gambling activities, law enforcement officers searched the home of Yip Sir, a codefendant in the present action, pursuant to a warrant. The search yielded, among other evidence, tape recordings of telephone conversations in which Yip Sir conducted his gambling business with callers by taking bets or arranging to settle balances. Yip Sir taped these conversations himself to serve as proof of the bets placed and payments offered, but did not obtain the consent of the persons with whom he spoke. On several of these tapes, Yip Sir…