United States v. Theodore J. Isaacs and Otto Kerner, Jr.

Following a six-week trial before a jury in the Northern District of Illinois, Theodore J. Isaacs and Otto Kerner, Jr., were found guilty on February 19, 1973 of a variety of offenses arising out of their activities on behalf of certain Illinois racing interests in return for bribes of more than $150,000 each. Isaacs and Kerner were both convicted on all those counts of an indictment which charged an 18 U.S.C. § 371 conspiracy to violate the Travel Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1952 and the Mail Fraud Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (Count I); use of interstate facilities in furtherance of bribery, 18 U.S.C. § 1952…