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d and common objectives. Both Counts Three and Five are charged under the same statute, 18 U.S.C. § 371, for conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States. But going beyond this "general level" of similarity, the statutory objectives of the two counts differ. Macchia, 35 F.3d at 669. Count Three is a c

peculation, with the apparent presumption that absent evidence would necessarily favor the Defendant, is insufficient to establish actual prejudice. See United States v. Long, 697 F. Supp. 651, 657 (S.D.N.Y. 1988) (no prejudice where there is "no way of knowing what [an absent witness's] testimony would have been

es; and (8) the degree of interdependence between alleged distinct conspiracies. United States v. Macchia, 35 F.3d 662, 667 (2d Cir. 1994) (quoting Korfant, 771 F.2d at 662). In applying the Korfant factors, "no dominant factor or single touchstone" determines whether two allegedly distinct conspiracie

'x 89, 91 (2d Cir. 2013) 5 EFTA00156404 Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 657 Filed 04/29/22 Page 6 of 45 (summary order) (citing United States v. Korfant, 771 F.2d 660, 662 (2d Cir. 1985) (per curiam)); United States v. Villa, 744 F. App'x 716, 720 (2d Cir. 2018) (summary order). Those factors includ

, e.g., United States v. Salameh, 152 F.3d 88, 118-20 (2d Cir. 1998) (defendant pled guilty in EDNY to using the passport of another person to enter the United States and later charged in SDNY with related, but distinct terrorism offenses); United States v. Gonzalez, 93 F. App'x 268, 269-70 (2d Cir. 2004) (defenda

17 United States v. Gonzalez, 93 F. App'x 268 (2d Cir. 2004) 14, 16 United States v. Harvey, 791 F.2d 294 (4th Cir. 1986) 15 United States v. Korfant, 771 F.2d 660 (2d Cir.1985) 19 EFTA00103760 United States v. Lopez, 356 F.3d 463 (2d Cir. 2004) 18, 19, 20 United States v. Rooney, 37 F.3d

in United States v. Gebbie, 294 F.3d 540, 544-52 (3d Cir. 2002), holding that "when a United States Attorney negotiates and contracts on behalf of `the United States' or 'the Government' in a plea agreement for specific crimes, that attorney speaks for and binds all of his or her fellow United States Attorneys wi

12 United States v. Gebbie, 294 F.3d 540 (3d Cir. 2002) 6, 7, 10 United States v. Gonzalez, 93 F. App'x 268 (2d Cir. 2004) 7 United States v. Korfant, 771 F.2d 660 (2d Cir.1985) 9 United States v. Laskow, 688 F. Supp. 851 (E.D.N.Y. 1988) 8, 10 United States v. Lopez, 356 F.3d 463 (2d Cir. 20