United States v. Sam Feldman

SMITH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction in the Southern District of New York upon a jury verdict of guilty of obstructing commerce by extortion in violation of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, and conspiring to do so, Edward Weinfeld, Judge. Judgment affirmed on both counts.

On June 23,1959 a six count indictment was returned against eleven individual and one corporate defendant. The defendants included appellant, President of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union; Stanley Lehman, Secretary-Treasurer of the Union; Harry Waltzer, William Walsh, John Lawrence, Jr.,…