Former Niles Mayor, Ralph Infante, is asking a federal judge to throw out his 2018 corruption conviction.

A filing by Infante's attorney argues that Infante was charged as a part of a criminal enterprise involving several people, but that his conviction was based only on his conduct alone.

Infante's attorney argues that there are different standards of proof and that the government did not have enough evidence to convict him as a one-man "enterprise."

Infante has been in the Lorain Correctional Institution since May 2018.

He's serving a ten-year sentence after being convicted on 22 charges, which include tampering with records, gambling, operating a gambling house, theft in office, having an unlawful interest in a public contract, falsification and engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity.

Some of those closest to Infante, over his 24 years as Niles mayor, testified during his trial that he accepted bribes to give people jobs with the city.