Adai Leser and Czali Leser v. United States

Following seven weeks of trial to a jury, productive of a reporter’s transcript of more than 4,000 pages, together with many documentary exhibits, the appellants were convicted on thirty-one counts of a thirty-five count indictment.

Conviction was on Counts One to Three, Five, Six, Eight to Twenty-seven, inclusive, and Thirty to Thirty-five, inclusive. Count One charged a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341 [Mail Fraud]. Counts Two, Three, Five, Six, and Eight to Twelve, inclusive, each charged separate violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1341 , and specified individual mailings in pursuance of the scheme and artifice set forth in Count One of the indictment. Counts Thirteen to Twenty-three, inclusive, charged violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1343 [Fraud by wire], each count specifying and setting forth particular telegrams submitted for the purpose of executing the scheme and artifice alleged in Count One.

Counts Twenty-four to Twenty-seven, inclusive, charged the transmission by means of Western Union Bank wire of various sums of money for the purpose of executing the scheme and artifice set out in Count One, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343 .

Counts Thirty to Thirty-five, inclusive, charged the…