Reiss v. United States

ALDRICH, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, Jacobs, Reiss and Dole, were indicted in two counts for conspiracy to defraud the United States, 18 U.S.C.A. § 371, in connection with two Massachusetts highway condemnations affecting the federal fisc, cf. Harney v. United States, 1 Cir., 1962, 306 F.2d 523, cert. den. O’Connell v. United States, 371 U.S. 911, 83 S.Ct. 254, 9 L.Ed.2d 171. Each taking was of a (separate) portion of a lot belonging to Joada Realty Corporation, a fourth appellant.1 Ap*682pellants were acquitted on Count One, but, along with one DeSimone who does not appeal, convicted on Count Two.…