Legal Opinion
United States v. Turkish
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 24, 1978No. 78 Crim. 251PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
VINCENT L. BRODERICK, District Judge.
Five defendants are charged under 18 U.S.C. § 371 1 with conspiracy to defraud the United States “by impeding, impairing, obstructing and defeating the lawful functions of the Department of the Treasury in the collection of income taxes.”
The alleged objects of the conspiracy were a) the fraudulent creation of losses for an oil company, C. R. Rittenberry & Associates, Inc. (“Rittenberry”), through rigged commodity futures transactions on the Crude Oil Market which would guarantee the realization by the oil company of fraudulent tax losses in one…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Gregory v. HelveringSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- United States v. NoblesSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Krulewitch v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
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3Cited by38 opinions
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- United States v. BiaggiDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1987
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