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UNITED STATES v. KAISER

Crim. No. 3756.

179 F.Supp. 545 (1960)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. John C. KAISER, Gordon R. Brasch, Paul N. Crawford, Ralph W. DeVine, Herman Duyvejonck, Thomas M. Downs, Clair R. Hamburg, Edgar A. McDonald, Guy E. Sherman, Charles F. Thorpe, John D. Wilson, and Ernest Woodward, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Illinois, N. D.

January 13, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harlington Wood, Jr., U. S. Atty., Springfield, Ill., for plaintiff.

Winstein & Rimmerman, Rock Island, Ill., for defendants Crawford, Kaiser, Hamburg and Woodward.

John W. Heberling, Rock Island, Ill., for defendants Brasch, Duyvejonck, Sherman and Wilson.

Robert W. Brinn, Rock Island, Ill., for defendant McDonald.

Henry N. Neuman, Davenport, Iowa, for defendant Ralph W. DeVine.

Sinnett, Rink & Coryn, Rock Island, Ill., for defendant Charles F. Thorpe.

MERCER, Chief Judge.

Defendants are charged by indictment with the crime of conspiracy to defraud the United States in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. § 371. That section provides in pertinent part: "If two or more persons conspire * * * to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each" shall be punished as provided therein.

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