Evans v. United States

joinder of defendants proper under Rule 8(b) where the only evidence not admissible against all defendants in a conspiracy trial is that relating to tax returns | no specific time interval between the time of hiring and the time of any wage increase and the increase depended solely on the company’s determination of both the employee’s proficiency and attitude | use of interstate facilities to aid racketeering enterprises, 18 U.S.C. § 1952 (1970) | proof of the one charge was “a substantial part of the evidence supporting” the other; there existed a “large area of overlapping proof; ” “the area of proof that would be inadmissible at separate trials was relatively small” | conspiracy to violate § 1952; scienter unnecessary | conspiracy to violate Sec. 1952; scienter unnecessary