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UNITED STATES v. CHASON

No. 4, Docket 71-1414.

451 F.2d 301 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Oscar CHASON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 12, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter M. Phillips, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Southern District of New York (Whitney North Seymour, Jr., U. S. Atty., and Jay S. Horowitz, Asst. U. S. Atty., Southern District of New York, on the brief), for appellee.

Andrew T. McEvoy, Jr., New York City (Schulman, Abarbanel, Perkel & McEvoy, Thomas R. Newman, and Benjamin H. Siff, New York City, on the brief), for appellant.

Before KAUFMAN, ANDERSON and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

Oscar Chason, a Manhattan furrier, was charged with playing a key role in a scheme to defraud two major credit card companies, Diners Club and American Express, and was convicted on ten counts of mail fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1341. The scheme itself was rather simple. Certain persons would purchase airline tickets with lost or stolen credit cards and then pass these tickets on to Chason who either used them himself or resold them for 50 to...

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