UNITED STATES v. HOFFA

Nos. 14892-14898.

367 F.2d 698 (1966)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James R. HOFFA, Benjamin Dranow, Zachary A. Strate, Jr., S. George Burris, Abe I. Weinblatt, Calvin Kovens, and Samuel Hyman, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 28, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice J. Walsh, Anna R. Lavin, Chicago, Ill., Morris A. Shenker, St. Louis, Mo., Frank Ragano, Tampa, Fla., George F. Callaghan, Richard E. Gorman, Chicago, Ill., Jacques M. Schiffer, Rockville Center, N. Y., Charles A. Bellows, George J. Cotsirilos, Prentice H. Marshall, Chicago, Ill., for appellants.

Raymond E. LaPorte, Tampa, Fla., for appellant Dranow.

Howard W. Minn, Chicago, Ill., Jason E. Bellows, Sherman C. Magidson, Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for appellant Weinblatt.

Donald Page Moore, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Edward V. Hanrahan, U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., Jerome Feit, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., William O. Bittman, James Canavan, Thomas J. McTiernan, William E. Ryan, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for appellee.

Before DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge, and CASTLE and SWYGERT, Circuit Judges.


DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge.

The appellants herein were indicted on June 4, 1963, on twenty-eight counts. The first twenty-seven counts charged substantive violations of the mail and wire fraud statutes (18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343). The twenty-eighth count charged a conspiracy to commit the substantive offenses. The jury convicted all appellants on the conspiracy count, and each appellant on certain of the substantive counts.

The Court directed a judgment...

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