Legal Opinion
Stager v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 9, 1916No. 111PublishedCited by 7 opinions
In Error to the District Court of the United States.for the Southern District of New York. Charles E. Stager was convicted under Criminal Code, § 37, of conspiring to defraud the United States, and brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
AUGUSTUS N. HAND, District Judge.
The defendant, Charles I. Stager, an examiner of merchandise at the appraiser’s stores at New York, was indicted under section 37 of the United States Criminal Code for conspiring with George Silva and Henry Blumfeld Sciama to defraud the United States. The indictment alleged that:
“The said Silva and the said Sciama agreed with the said Stager that the said Stager should obtain secret and confidential information given by other importers of merchandise in connection with the importation of merchandise at the custom house at the port of New York, and should…
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