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PEOPLE v. YONKERS CONTR. CO.

17 N.Y.2d 322 (1966)

The People of the State of New York, Appellant-Respondent, v. Yonkers Contracting Co., Inc., Spencer A. Snook, Harry Posner and Arthur S. Cipolla, Respondents-Appellants, and Harry Bankard, Ernest L. Blakeman, Louis G. Blackhall, Edward J. Petrillo, Thomas W. Cohill, Harold Guidotti, Lendall H. Nevins and Alvin D. Pottle, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 5, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Buderwitz, Jr., W. E. Cribari and Walter B. Solinger II for Yonkers Contracting Co., Inc., and Arthur S. Cipolla, respondents-appellants, and Edward J. Petrillo, Thomas W. Cohill, Alvin D. Pottle, Harold Guidotti and Lendall H. Nevins, respondents.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Herbert H. Smith, Paxton Blair, Ruth Kessler Toch, Daniel M. Cohen and John P. MacArthur of counsel), for appellant-respondent.

John C. Kinney and John M. Freyer for Spencer A. Snook and Harry Posner, respondents-appellants.

Herald Price Fahringer for Arthur S. Cipolla, respondent-appellant and respondent.

E. Stewart Jones for Louis G. Blackhall, respondent.

Philip L. Graham for Harry Bankard, respondent.

William Scott, 2nd, and Andrew R. Stevenson for Ernest L. Blakeman, respondent.

Judges FULD, SCILEPPI, BERGAN and KEATING concur with Judge VAN VOORHIS; Judge BURKE dissents in part in an opinion in which Chief Judge DESMOND concurs.

VAN VOORHIS, J.

These appeals and cross appeals relate to the sufficiency of the evidence before the Grand Jury to sustain indictments for grand larceny against Yonkers Contracting Co., Inc. (hereafter called Yonkers) and a number of its officers and employees, also indictments likewise for grand larceny against certain members and employees of an engineering firm known as Briggs, Blitman and Posner. Bribery...

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