United States v. Fradkin

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The defendant James J. Fradkin was indicted with five other persons for using, and for conspiring to use, the mails in a scheme to defraud. Together with Julius Lehrenkrauss and Charles F. Lehrenkrauss he was convicted of substantive offenses under fifteen counts of the indictment and was also convicted under the conspiracy count. The defendant Fradkin alone appeals.

In the spring of 1932 Fradkin had several conversations with Juliüs Lehrenkrauss, who said the partnership of Lehrenkrauss & Sons needed additional working capital. As a result of these…