United States v. Barrios

SUGARMAN, District Judge.

The defendants were indicted for conspiring (1) “to commit offenses against the United States, to wit: to violate Title 31, §§ 440, 441, 442 and 443 of the United States Code, and the regulations (commonly known as the “Gold Regulations”)- issued and promulgated thereunder, and to defraud the United States in the exercise of its governmental functions of regulating the value of money * * * ”, and (2) to acquire excess quantities of gold and to divert and dispose of the same without an appropriate license.

The defendants move to dismiss the indictment contending that it…