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WEISS v. UNITED STATES

No. 42.

308 U.S. 321 (1939)

WEISS ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 11, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Theodore Kiendl for Dr. Maximilian Goldstein; Mr. Lloyd Paul Stryker for Joseph J. Weiss; and Mr. Jacob W. Friedman for Martin Gross, — petitioners.

Assistant Attorney General Rogge, with whom Solicitor General Jackson and Messrs. Benjamin M. Parker, George F. Kneip, Louis B. Schwartz, Fred E. Strine, and W. Marvin Smith were no the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioners were indicted, with five others, in the District Court for the Southern District of New York for using the mails to defraud and for conspiracy so to use them.1 The alleged scheme was to cheat insurance companies by inducing them to pay false claims for disability, health, and accident benefits to three of the defendants, Nelson...

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