United States v. Thomas J. Haggerty

FAIRCHILD, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Haggerty is the long time Secretary-Treasurer of the Milk Wagon Drivers Union 1 in Chicago. He was charged, in Count I, with embezzling $25,000 of union funds on July 24, 1962 2 and, in Count II, with wilfully causing false entries on that date in union records which the law required to be kept. 3 The jury found him not guilty of Count I but guilty of Count II. He has appealed.

Both counts relate to a union check for $25,000, drawn on First National Bank, dated July 24, 1962, and payable to Drovers National Bank. The union bookkeeper, Thomas Heneghan, entered…