Cramer v. Fahner

How later courts describe this case

• interstate commerce re quirement satisfied because social club paying extortion had less funds from which to purchase usual $68 per month of out-of-state coffee
• union officials directed deposits to banks giving gifts as premiums; officials’ retention of gifts supported § 1954 conviction
• “an utterance which was contemporaneous with an independently admissible nonverbal act ... and which relates to that act and throws some light upon it” is admissible
• hearsay admissible if witness offering hearsay is available for cross-examination and circumstances under which the hearsay statement was made indicate that the content was probably true
• requisite quantum of effect where the fact that a social club paid extortion money meant that it had less funds from which to spend its customary $68 per month on coffee from out of state
• implying a minimal showing would be sufficient