The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Wilkinson, 754 F.2d 1427 (2nd Cir. 1985):
Section 848 makes it a separate crime for a person to commit a narcotics felony "in concert with five or more persons with respect to whom such person occupies a position of organizer, a supervisory position, or any other position of management," from which the person "obtains substantial income or resources." 4 Although the government must establish that the person charged acted as an organizer, supervisor or manager, these terms are to be given their ordinary meaning, United States v. Mannino, 635 F.2d 110, 116, 117 (2d Cir.1980), and the person need not have been the dominant organizer or manager as long as she was in a managerial position with respect to five other persons. United States v. Losada, 674 F.2d 167, 174 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 457 U.S. 1125, 102 S.Ct. 2945, 73 L.Ed.2d 1341 (1982).
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