UNITED STATES v. BROWN

No. 1034, Docket 77-1033.

555 F.2d 336 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. James Leonard BROWN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 16, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob Laufer, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City (Robert B. Fiske, U. S. Atty., S. D. N. Y., Frederick T. Davis, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Michael B. Pollack, New York City (Charles L. Weintraub, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Before CLARK, Associate Justice, MOORE and MULLIGAN, Circuit Judges.


MULLIGAN, Circuit Judge:

The only issue of any substance raised on this appeal is whether the elaborate fraudulent scheme admittedly perpetrated by the appellant James L. Brown constitutes a violation of the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws. We hold that it does and therefore affirm the conviction. Other claims of error by the trial judge are clearly frivolous and not worthy of comment here.

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