United States v. Stromberg

PALMIERI, District Judge.

The Grand Jury has found an indictment charging forty-six defendants with conspiring among themselves and with sixteen other persons not named as defendants and with divers other persons to the Grand Jury unknown to violate 18 U.S.C. § 212 (1952),1 21 U.S.C.A. § 173, and 21 U.S.C.A. § 174, 2 and to *518defraud the United States of its right to have the functions “of the United States Customs Service exercised and administered free from unlawful impairment and obstruction, corruption, improper influence, dishonesty and hope of unlawful reward.” The indictment, which is in…