United States v. Foster
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Harold A. Foster and others were indicted for conspiring to defraud the United States. On demurrer to the indictment.
1Opinion of the Court
MORTON, District Judge.
The first count of this indictment charges the defendants with having conspired to defraud the United States. The alleged object of the conspiracy was to obtain for the defendant Foster a larger salary as postmaster at North Brookfield than he was, by law and by the regulations of the Post Office Department, entitled to. This object was to be accomplished, according to the allegations of the indictment, in the following manner: One of the other defendants, Winchell, was to buy at the North Brookfield post office large quantities of stamps, which he was to send to the…
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