Feder v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Isabelle Feder and Michael Polsky were convicted of conspiring to defraud the United States, and they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
HOUGH, Circuit Judge.
Although plaintiffs in error were brought to trial under two indictments, they were convicted and sentenced under one only.
They were in common form accused of conspiring to defraud the United States by procuring, or endeavoring to procure, the acceptance by the War Department of, and payment by the United States for, a *695large number of “barrack bags” which were improperly made, defective, and “useless to the United States for the purpose for which they were manufactured.” The overt act relied upon and pleaded consisted in giving to certain representatives of the War…
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