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UNITED STATES v. WOLFSON

No. 589, Docket 76-1393.

558 F.2d 59 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Louis E. WOLFSON and Elkin B. Gerbert, Defendants, Louis E. Wolfson, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 3, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor Rabinowitz, New York City (Herbert Jordan, Rabinowitz, Boudin & Standard, Milton A. Bass, Bass, Ullman & Lustigman, New York City, Bernard Fensterwald, Jr., Fensterwald & McCandless, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Angus MacBeth, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City (Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U. S. Atty., S. D. N. Y., Audrey Strauss, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before LUMBARD and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges, and COFFRIN, District Judge.

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

In 1966, the Government filed two indictments against Louis E. Wolfson. The first charged violations of section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933, 15 U.S.C. § 77e, in connection with the sale of unregistered stock of Continental Enterprises ("Continental"). The second charged, among other things, fraud in the purchase and sale of stock of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation ("Merritt-Chapman"). Thus began a series of trials and appeals...

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