United States v. Eliopoulos

FORMAN, District Judge.

On November 18, 1941, a grand jury in New Jersey indicted three brothers, Athanael, Elias and George Eliopoulos, on two counts (Indictment 514c). In the first count it charged that the defendants together with others not named as defendants, between January 1, 1929, and August 1, 1930, conspired to defraud the United States of internal revenue taxes upon narcotic drugs imported into the United States in violation of Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 88. In essence it was charged that the alleged conspiracy contemplated that these defendants while in Paris, France, and other places in…