United States v. Frank Alper, United States of America v. Frank Alper Appeal of Stanley M. Greenberg

OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellants Alper and Greenberg were indicted on March 20, 1968. The indictment, in twenty-one counts, charged Alper, Greenberg and one Feiner as defendants in a conspiracy count in which one Hartsock is named as a co-conspirator. 18 U.S.C. § 371 (1964). It charges Alper, Greenberg and Feiner with twenty counts of mail fraud. 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (1964). All three defendants pleaded not guilty and were tried before Judge Lawrence A. Whipple * and a jury in the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania beginning on March 3, 1970.…