United States v. Charles C. Diggs, Jr.

WILKEY, Circuit Judge.

The defendant Charles C. Diggs, Jr., United States Congressman for the 13th District of Michigan, appeals from a conviction on eleven counts of mail fraud, under 18 U.S.C. § 1341,1 and eighteen counts of making false statements to a United States agency, under 18 U.S.C. § 1001,2 following a *991jury trial before Judge Oliver Gasch of the United States District Court.3 The defendant was sentenced to concurrent terms of incarceration of three years on each count.

The indictment alleged that between T July 1973 and 2 March 1977 the defendant devised a scheme to defraud the…