United States v. Golder

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

These defendants have been indicted for conspiracy to violate the Act of June 13, 1934, c. 482, 48 Stat. 948, Public No. 324, 73d Congress (40 USCA §§ 276b, 276c), which was intended to prohibit and punish a practice sometimes resorted to by public works contractors commonly called the “kick-back.” The indictment describes the object of the conspiracy in the same general words used in the act, but it then goes on to set out in detail the specific things which, it says, the defendants conspired to do and these things clearly are not crimes against the United States…