United States v. James R. Hoffa, Benjamin Dranow, Zachary A. Strate, Jr., S. George Burris, Abe I. Weinblatt and Calvin Kovens

DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is the third time that an appeal in the case at bar has been before this Court. Our previous decisions in this case are reported at 367 F.2d 698 (October 4, 1966) and 402 F.2d 380 (August 15, 1968).

The indictment herein contained twenty-eight counts. The first twenty-seven counts charged substantive violations of the mail and wire fraud statutes (18 U. S.C. §§ 1341, 1343). The twenty-eighth count charged a conspiracy to commit the substantive counts.

After a jury trial, all appellants were convicted on the conspiracy count and each appellant was convicted on…