District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania June 18, 1981, Crim. 81-93 (United States v. Johnson)

MEMORANDUM

JOSEPH S. LORD, III, Chief Judge.

I. Introduction

Defendants were indicted for conspiring to defraud the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341 in that they sold to Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents a white powder which defendants had represented was cocaine but in fact was not.