United States v. Attaway

PUTNAM, District Judge.

This prosecution is laid under the provisions of the Securities Act, and charges violations of Section 17(a) and Section 5(a) (2) of that act, (15 U.S.C. §§ 77q(a), 77e(a) (2)) and violations of the mail fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1341. The indictment contains thirty counts, the first of which sets forth in detail the alleged scheme to defraud employed by the defendant in the operation of the Attaway Clinic and Hospital in Ville Platte, Louisiana, in the first eleven paragraphs. These allegations are made part of the first twenty-six counts by reference.

Violations of 15…