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Criminal Law Keyed to Kaplan
People v. Dioguardi
Citation:
8 N.Y.2d 260, 203 N.Y.S.2d 870 (1960)Facts
The Kerin family, led by Anthony Kerin, Sr., owned two nonunion corporations (collectively “the Kerin companies”). The Kerin companies’ businesses were jeopardized by a picket line that blocked their shipping entrance. Alarmed by the economic threat the picket line posed, Kerin, Sr. was convinced by John McNamara to enter into a “package deal” to eliminate the threat. McNamara’s deal included three components: (1) that Kerin, Sr. join his union, (2) that the Kerin companies pay Equitable Research Associates (“Equitable”) to defray the “out-of-pocket” expenses incurred by the unions in organizing the companies, and (3) that the Kerin companies retain Equitable as a labor consultant. Kerin, Sr. agreed and the Kerin companies ended up paying $4,700 to Equitable. Dioguardi (defendant), the sole officer of Equitable, was later charged with extortion.
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