United States v. Addison Raymond Ketchum

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.

Ketchum, formerly a Public Works Civil Engineering Adviser in the International Cooperation Administration (ICA) was indicted in the Southern District of New York for violating 18 U.S.C. § 281, now superseded by 18 U.S.C. § 203, 76 Stat. 1121 (1962). Section 281 made it a crime when any federal employee “directly or indirectly receives or agrees to receive, any compensation for any services rendered or to be rendered, either by himself or another, in relation to any proceeding, contract, claim * * * or other matter in which the United States is a party or directly or…