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1937-03-06
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McDonald v. United States, 89 F.2d 128 (8th Cir. 1937)
The Eighth Circuit's affirmance of the conviction of Cassius McDonald for conspiracy in the Bremer kidnaping, based on his exchange of some $92,000 of marked ransom money at Miami and Havana in September 1934. Sentence fifteen years.
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- 1937-03-06
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- court-opinion
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- 10587
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The overt acts charged against the appellant, the court says, “were (as the indictment set out and the evidence showed) that he had on September 2, 5, 9, and 10, 1934, at Miami, Florida, and Havana, Cuba, knowingly done acts to further the exchange and had exchanged some $92,000 of marked money, which had been paid as a ransom, or reward to his coconspirators for the release of Edward George Bremer, in exchange for unmarked money.” He was “found guilty and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in a penitentiary for the term of fifteen years.” The court concluded: “The case should be affirmed, and this we order.”
The opinion names the appellant only as McDonald. The first name Cassius comes from the Bureau’s 1936 Bremer summary, which says $1,000 bills found in the Lake Weir house were part of those “obtained by Cassius McDonald in Havana, Cuba in exchange for Bremer ransom money.” The court’s description of his business is not repeated here.
