United States v. Belimex Corp.

MOTLEY, District Judge.

Memorandum Opinion

I

Defendants Belimex Corporation and Bernard Liebermann are charged in a six-count indictment, filed December 6, 1965 in the Southern District of New York, with having misrepresented to agencies of the Department of Commerce the ultimate destination of ball bearings for export, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 80 (1946), prohibiting the making of knowing misrepresentations to government agencies.1 The alleged misrepresentations are said to have been made in June, August, and September of 1948.

Defendant Belimex is a New York subsidiary of a European…