United States v. Frank R. West, United States of America v. American Beef Packers, Inc.

MATTHES, Senior Circuit Judge.

This prosecution is premised on a 105-count indictment filed on August 8,1975, in the United States District Court for. the District of Nebraska. The original named defendants were Frank R. West, Robert E. Lee, American Beef Packers, Inc. (ABP), and Beefland International, Inc. (BI). Forty-three counts of the indictment alleged that the defendants used or caused to be used the mails in furtherance of an alleged scheme or artifice to defraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341; thirty-two counts charged the use of wire communications (telephone) to further the…