United States v. Private Brands, Inc., and Francis P. Carey

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The appellants were convicted on each count of a twenty-one count indictment charging violations of 18 U.S.C.A. § 1001. 1 In substance the charge was that they falsely and fraudulently represented to an agency of the United States that bottles of chloroform purchased by the government from Private Brands, Inc., of which Carey was President and controlling stockholder, conformed to the standards of the United! States Pharmacopoeia, referred to as “USP,” when in fact they did not, as defendants well knew. In sixteen of the counts the false representation was made by…