United States v. Azar

TALBOT SMITH, District Judge.

This is a legal test of two recently-enacted anti-racketeering statutes. 1 The facts are largely stipulated. What we have before us is a tip sheet (called a Greensheet, Exhibit 1) employed in the numbers racket to guide the players to successful choices of numbers. The ac tivities of the defendants in connection with the printing (in Ohio) and the distribution (in Michigan) thereof bring them before us.

Both defendants are named in each count of an 18 count indictment. Counts 1, 4, 7, 10, 13 and 16 charge that on certain specified dates the defendants knowingly…