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191 F.2d 300

Ex parte Cohen

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided Aug. 23, 1951.

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1951-08-23

Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1962

9 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact, or makes any false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or representations, or makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. June 25, 1948, c. 645, 62 Stat. 749 .””

quoted by 1 later decision, including Cohen v. United States

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990)

Relies on United States v. Noveck · United States v. Jackson · Danziger v. United States

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1951-08-23

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¶1Sydney M. Williams, and G. N. Williams, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

¶2Ernest A. Tolin, U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

¶3DENMAN, Chief Judge.

¶4Cohen has petitioned me for bail pending his appeal in this court of appeals from sentences on counts one, three, five and six of an indictment of which he was adjudged guilty by the district court. To secure such bail, Cohen must show a substantial question with respect to error in his convictions for the consideration of this court. Fed.Rules Crim.Proc. 46(a)(2), 18 .U.S.C. Since the sentences, each for five years, are concurrent, it is necessary that as to each there is shown such a substantial question. Danziger v. United States, 9 Cir., 161 F.2d 299; Lowden v. United States, 9 Cir., 187 F.2d 484.

¶5Count Six of the indictment charged a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001, providing that any person making a false statement in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States shall be subject to fine or imprisonment or both. Cohen claims this act was repealed by Section 3616(a) and (b) of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 3616(a, b), making a specific provision for a false statement to a collector or deputy with intent to defeat or evade a valuation or assessment.

¶6The two statutes provide for different offenses with different penalties. *301The later act does not state the earlier act is repealed. “A law is not to he construed as impliedly repealing a prior law unless no other reasonable construction can be applied.” United States v. Jackson, 4 Cir., 1938, 302 U.S. 628, 631, 58 S.Ct. 390, 392, 82 L.Ed. 488; Charles Nelson Co. v. Curtis, 9 Cir., 1 F.2d 774, 775; Bryan v. Fumio Arai, 9 Cir., 64 F.2d 954, 956.

¶7The principle underlying Cohen’s contention is clearly determined adversely to him in United States v. Novek, 273 U.S. 202, 206, 47 S.Ct. 341, 71 L.Ed. 610. Since there is no substantial question for review of the sentence in the sixth count, the petition for bail is denied.

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