...SEC. 5440. If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offence against the United States, or to defraud the United States In any manner or for...to such conspiracy shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars, and to imprisonment not...

...provides: "If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of 215 US Syllabus. such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, all the parties to...

...statute is the agreement or confederation of the conspirators to commit one or more unlawful acts "where one or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy." The overt act, without proof of which a charge of conspiracy cannot be submitted...

...commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined not more than $10,000...

...upon § 37 of the Criminal Code, Act of March 4, 1909, c. 321; 35 Stat. 1088, punishing conspiracy " to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose." A demurrer to all the counts was sustained by the District Court on the grounds that the Act of 1918...

...commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof In any manner or for any purpose and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined not more than •10,000...

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