UNITED STATES v. BARNES

Crim. No. 21099.

213 F.Supp. 510 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America v. Joseph W. BARNES, Robert McDevitt, a/k/a Charles Robert McDevitt, Charles J. Doheny, Samuel Miller and Elias Dubas.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

January 7, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Drew J. T. O'Keefe, U. S. Atty., Edmund E. DePaul, Asst. U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

A. Charles Peruto, Philadelphia, Pa., for Joseph W. Barnes.

Jacob Kossman, Philadelphia, Pa., for Robert McDevitt.

Martin Vinikoor and Howard L. Criden, Vinikoor, Fein, Criden & Johanson, Philadelphia, Pa., for Samuel Miller.

Benjamin R. Donolow, Philadelphia, Pa., for Elias Dubas.

Daniel J. DiGiacomo, Philadelphia, Pa., for Charles J. Doheny.


GRIM, District Judge.

According to the government's brief,1 the defendant Barnes, employed by the First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Company,2 embezzled some $285,000 from his employer over a nine-month period in 1961. He used this money to gamble on sporting events, placing bets with the defendant McDevitt, a bookmaker, who learned during the period in question...

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