United States v. Salvatore Annunziato

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.

The trial of this seemingly simple criminal case, involving an alleged violation of 29 U.S.C.A. § 186(b), which at the time made it unlawful “for any representative of any employees who are employed in an industry affecting commerce to receive or accept, or to agree to receive or accept, from the employer of such employees any money or other •thing of value,” has raised a host of problems, to the proper solution of which the Government’s seven page brief, filed, in violation of our Rule 15(a), 28 U.S.C.A. on the eve of the argument, has rendered' almost no assistance.

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