United States v. Schiller

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The indictment was in one count and charged that Schiller, Hoffman and First Terrace Gardens, Inc., a New York corporation of which Hoffman was the President, conspired to defraud the United States, in the exercise of its governmental function of administering the Emergency Rent Control Program j ustly and free from corruption and improper influence, (1) by submitting to the Housing Expediter false petitions as to the amounts of management expenses and fees incurred by First Terrace Gardens; (2) by having Hoffman and First Terrace Gardens pay to Schiller $2,000…