David Allen Young v. United States

The evidence in the district court showed that appellant late in 1959, in Los Angeles, California, entered into an agreement to invest some money in real estate with two other persons, one Leo Chase and Glen Odekirk, who needed capital in their partnership real estate business. In the transaction, Young delivered a $185,-000 cashier’s check, drawn on a Chicago, Illinois, bank into a local bank escrow, with the admonition it was not to be cashed for sixty days. Meanwhile, on the security of the check, $85,000 was to be advanced to appellant.

Telephonic inquiry by the bank developed that the check was a forgery. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was called in, and on questioning appellant as to the authenticity of the cashier’s cheek and where and how appellant had obtained it, appellant declared he was the owner of one “dormant” company in Chicago, and a “partner” (sic) in another “dormant corporation” in Chicago. Appellant further claimed to have a suit pending against the Illinois Toll Commission for $700,000, that the cheek came from “a partnership” in Chicago that owed appellant $200,000. Appellant refused to identify the partnership, either at the time of the conversation…