United States v. Cesare Viviano

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

On May 24, 1968 Cesare Viviano was indicted for conspiring to violate 18 U. S.C. §§ 201(b) and 201(f) by offering a bribe in the amount of two hundred dollars to an inspector of the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for information from the confidential files of the Inspection Service (Count 1, 18 U.S.C. § 371), and giving a bribe (Count 2, 18 U.S.C. § 201(b)) or, in the alternative, a gratuity (Count 3, 18 U.S.C. § 201(f)) in the amount of fifty dollars to an inspector of the Internal Revenue Service. He was also charged with a violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7214(a) (8)…