UNITED STATES v. KENNEDY

No. 342, Docket 26663.

291 F.2d 457 (1961)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Raymond KENNEDY, Benjamin Kasprzak and Joseph Kasprzak, and James Alvanos, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry A. Lowenberg, New York City, for defendants-appellants Raymond Kennedy and James Alvanos.

Jacob P. Lefkowitz, New York City, for defendants-appellants Benjamin Kasprzak and Joseph Kasprzak.

Daniel P. Hollman, New York City (Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., for the Southern District of New York, New York City, Atty. for the United States; Daniel P. Hollman and Irving Younger, Asst. U. S. Attys., New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before FRIENDLY and SMITH, Circuit Judges, and WATKINS, District Judge.


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.

Raymond Kennedy, Benjamin and Joseph Kasprzak, and James Alvanos appeal from a judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of New York convicting them upon a jury verdict. The indictment, filed April 11, 1960, contained 182 counts. The first 181 charged substantive violations of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, at various dates going back to April 1, 1955; the last charged a conspiracy to violate it, beginning in 1952 and...

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