Legal Opinion
United States v. Morton Jacobs and Irving Spieler
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 24, 1970No. 495, 496, Dockets 33885, 34369PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:
Codefendants, Jacobs and Spieler, were charged, first, with conspiring to bribe an Internal Revenue Service agent to influence an IRS investigation and so to obstruct justice in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 201, 1503 (18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 2), and, second, with offering a bribe to the agent, 18 U.S.C. § 201. 1
They were tried to a jury which returned verdicts of guilty against both defendants on both counts. Jacobs received concurrent sentences of one year on each count. Spieler was given suspended concurrent one-year prison terms and placed on probation for one year. Jacobs…
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