United States v. Dale Duane Minyard

Dale Duane Minyard appeals from his conviction on eight counts of a seventeen-count indictment charging that, on various dates in June and July, 1969, he obtained by fraud, from the individual named in each count, money which was the subject of a grant or contract of assistance pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Program, in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 2703 . Two-year concurrent sentences were imposed.

In the summer of 1969 an encampment for citizenship program was inaugurated for the Great Falls, Montana area. This contemplated taking eleven children from the poverty level and making arrangements for five of them to go to an encampment in New York, five to an encampment in Kentucky, and one to an encampment in Puerto Rico. It was decided that the tuition, and the expenses of board and room would be paid, one half by the United Scholarship Fund, and the other half by the Encampment for Citizenship group. It was also decided that one half of the children’s transportation expenses would be paid by the United Scholarship Fund, and the remaining expenses would be paid by the children.

It was not possible for these children to pay for the other expenses to be incurred in connection…