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UNITED STATES v. CHESTNUT

No. 74 Cr. 1191.

399 F.Supp. 1292 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America, v. Jack L. CHESTNUT, Defendant.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

June 25, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Curran, U. S. Atty., S. D. N. Y., New York City, for the United States; Eugene F. Bannigan, Robert Gold, Asst. U. S. Attys., of counsel.

Thomson, Wylde, Nordby & Friedberg and Cochrane & Bresnahan, St. Paul, Minn., for defendant; Douglas W. Thomson, Jack S. Nordby, John A. Cochrane, St. Paul, Minn., of counsel.

OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

The defendant, Jack L. Chestnut, the campaign manager for Senator Hubert H. Humphrey's 1970 campaign for the office of United States Senator from Minnesota, was convicted after a jury trial of willfully violating 18 U.S.C., sections 610 and 2. The charge was that the defendant caused Lennen & Newell, Inc., a New York advertising agency employed by the Humphrey campaign, to accept or receive an illegal contribution...

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