Legal Opinion
Weiss v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 11, 1939No. 42PublishedCited by 196 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Roberts
The petitioners were indicted, with five others, in the District Court for the Southern District of New York for using the mails to defraud and for conspiracy so to use them. 1 . The' alleged scheme was to cheat insurance companies by inducing them to pay false claims for disability, health, and accident benefits to three of the defendants, Nelson, Berger, and Spitz. These three pleaded guilty and testified for the Government. Three defendants who were physicians, — Messman, Goldstein, and Jgrupp — were alleged to have assisted by furnishing policy holders false medical certificates and…
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