Milan verdict count by count

THE ALLEGATION: From March 1996 to April 1999, Milan secretly used his office for personal gain, accepting cash, vacations, dinners, automobiles and home improvements from individuals and companies, including the Philadelphia/South Jersey mob, doing business in and seeking business from the city of Camden.
GUILTY: Counts 1, 4, 8 - Mail fraud
GUILTY: Counts 3, 7 - Wire fraud
DEADLOCKED: Counts 5, 6 - Mail fraud
DEADLOCKED: Count 2 - Wire fraud

THE ALLEGATION: Milan solicited and accepted payments and other benefits from the mob "in exchange for a continuing agreement to assist them in obtaining contracts and other business with the City of Camden, and to do official favors for them when specific opportunities arose. ... In turn, associates of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra Family formed businesses and developed allegiances with contractors to place the Philadelphia LCN Family in a position to benefit from its corrupt relationship with defendant Milton Milan."
GUILTY: Count 9 - Conspiracy to use interstate facilities to solicit, accept bribes from Mafia

THE ALLEGATION: Milan conspired in 1997-98 with Joseph S. Caruso, a municipal prosecutor, to solicit and accept a $5, 000 political contribution from the municipal public defender in exchange for the defender's reappointment. The deal was approved during a trip from New Jersey to Pennsylvania.
NOT GUILTY: Count 10 - Conspiracy to violate Travel Act by soliciting bribes; Count 11 - Attempted extortion of $5,000 political contribution

THE ALLEGATION: Milan devised a scheme to unlawfully use $ 7,500 in election contributions for personal gain. He spent $5,000 to defray a post-election vacation to Puerto Rico for himself, his girlfriend and more than 10 others. As part of the fraud, he labeled the trip a victory celebration. To further the scheme, Milan arranged to have his campaign charged for renting space at the Sears building, even though he had free use of the space. He and his campaign treasurer sought and received a bogus lease from the building's owner.
GUILTY: Counts 12, 13 - Wire fraud; Count 14 - Mail fraud

THE ALLEGATION: In 1994-95, Milan and Gholam H. Darakhshan, his partner in Atlas Contracting Co., devised a scheme to evade IRS bank reporting requirements on $65,000 in cash they received from Jose ``JR'' Rivera, a Camden auto parts owner and drug dealer. Milan knew the money was from Rivera's drug trafficking. Milan and his partner divided the cash among friends and relatives. The friends and relatives were then instructed to either purchase bank checks or deposit the money in personal checking accounts, and make the checks payable to Atlas Contracting. The deposits were in amounts of less than $10,000, the level that triggers IRS reporting requirements.
GUILTY: Count 15 - Conspiracy to avoid IRS reporting requirements; Count 16 - Conspiracy to commit money laundering; Count 17 - Money laundering

THE ALLEGATION: Milan and Darakhshan staged a burglary at the offices of Atlas Contracting on Dec. 31, 1995, as part of an insurance scam. They reported to Camden police that two computers, two printers and a copier machine were stolen, when they were not. An insurer issued a partial payment of $4,743. Milan kept one of the computers for himself until selling it in August 1997 to one of his interns for about $1,500 - about $1,000 more than its normal resale value.
GUILTY: Counts 18, 19 - Mail fraud