United States v. Laudani

JONES, Circuit Judge.

Laudani, the appellant, and one Rossi, along with several others, were charged in each of a number of counts in fourteen separate indictments with having induced, by means of intimidation, threats of dismissal, etc., certain named employees of a company doing work, financed in part by grants from the United States, to give .up to the defendants portions of the employees’ weekly compensation in alleged violation of the Act of June 13, 1934, c. 482, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 948, 40 U.S.C.A. § 276b, commonly known as the “Kick-Back Act”. The court, on the government’s motion,…