UNITED STATES v. SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL U. OF NO. AMER.

No. 70-CR-428.

343 F.Supp. 779 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America v. SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. New York.

May 25, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Morse, Esq., U. S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y., by Edgar N. Brown, Gregory Jones, John E. Clark, Special Attys., Dept. of Justice, Criminal Div., Washington, D. C., and Gavin Scotti, Brooklyn, N. Y., for United States.

Schulman, Abarbanel, Perkel & McEvoy, by Howard Schulman, and Andrew T. McEvoy, New York City, for defendant Seafarers International Union.

Rosner & Rosner, by Jonathan L. Rosner, New York City, for defendants Paul and Frank Drozak.

Goldstein, Shames & Hyde, by Edward Brodsky, New York City, for defendant Al Kerr.

Davis, Polk & Wardwell, by Lawrence E. Walsh, Michael W. Leisure, Richard J. Hoskins, and Richard L. Grimwade, New York City, for defendants Paul Hall and Earl Shepard.

Abraham Brodsky, New York City, for defendants Philip Carlip and Joseph DiGiorgio.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

COSTANTINO, District Judge.

By way of an indictment filed in this court on June 30, 1970, the Government charges that the Executive Board of the Seafarers International Union met on August 27, 1962 to create a special political action fund—Seafarers Political Activity Donation (SPAD). The Government further charges that SPAD was nothing more than a device used by the union to conceal...

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