McFall

BACKGROUND

The charges against McFall concern corrupt profiteering among a group of state and local officials in San Joaquin County, California. The principal players are: Neat Allen Sawyer (“Sawyer”), a former prosecutor in the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office and, at the time of the events at issue, the Chief Deputy Director of the Governor’s Office of Criminal Justice Planning (“OCJP”), T. Baxter Dunn (“Dunn”), former Sheriff of San Joaquin County, Lynn 1 In this opinion we address McFall’s contentions relating only to Counts 2, 3, 4, 11, and 14 of the final superseding indictment. McFall’s other con- tentions are addressed in a separate, concurrently filed memorandum dis- position in which we affirm McFall’s conviction on the remaining 12 counts. Accordingly, the facts relevant only to the other counts are omit- ted. 2870 UNITED STATES v. MCFALL Bedford (“Bedford”), former San Joaquin County supervisor, and McFall, a lobbyist and former member of the Board of Trustees of Water Reclamation District 17 (the reclamation district responsible for maintenance of a portion of the levees along the San Joaquin River).

Dunn, Sawyer, and McFall worked in…