Sam Lieberman v. United States

*47BURGER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from conviction of passing forged promissory notes. Appellant Lieberman does not deny passing the notes, but denies they were forged.

Appellant conducted a thriving home improvement contracting business. Pressed for working capital as the trial court said, “it became necessary * * to devise some method of raising money to pay for labor and material during the interim between the execution and the completion of the contracts.” Appellant’s solution was to induce customers, at the time the contracts were made, to sign notes and deeds of trust in blank.…