United States v. Kelinson

FRANK, Circuit Judge.

The defendants were tried before a judge and jury under an indictment charging fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States Veterans’ Administration by presenting false tuition claims for veteran training in meat-cutting, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 286, 287, 371 and 1001. The jury found all the defendants guilty, and the judge entered judgments of conviction and sentenced them. Defendants Kelinson, Thai and Saltz have appealed.

1. The government offered in evidence, and the judge permitted the reading to the jury of, a part of defendant Sobers’ testimony given…