UNITED STATES v. HARRIS

Nos. 15765-15767.

388 F.2d 373 (1967)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George HARRIS, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LeRoy SILVERSTEIN, also known as LeRoy Sterling, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Leo RUGENDORF and Larry Rosenberg, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

Rehearings Denied February 14, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anna R. Lavin, Chicago, Ill., for LeRoy Silverstein.

Frank Oliver, Chicago, Ill., for Leo Rugendorf.

Melvin B. Lewis, Chicago, Ill., for Larry Rosenberg.

Maurice J. Walsh, Chicago, Ill., for appellants Leo Rugendorf and Larry Rosenberg.

Julius Lucius Echeles, Jo-Anne F. Wolfson, Frank Oliver, Chicago, Ill., for appellant George Harris.

Jack M. Levin, Chicago, Ill., for Leo Rugendorf.

Edward V. Hanrahan, U. S. Atty., Sheldon Davidson, Chicago, Ill., for appellee. John Peter Lulinski, Gerald M. Werksman, Lawrence Jay Weiner, Asst. U. S. Attys., of counsel.

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


DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Defendants were charged in a 13-count indictment. The first count charged a conspiracy to defeat the Bankruptcy Act, Title 18 U.S.C. § 152, and the Dyer Act, Title 18 U.S.C. § 2312. In the second count, the defendants were charged with a substantive violation of the Interstate Extortion Act, Title 18 U.S.C. § 1951. Various of the defendants were charged singly or together with one or more of the other defendants in counts...

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