Opinion ID: 1474108
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: The Charge Against this Defendant.

Text: We come now to the circumstances of this case. The Government charges that defendant willfully omitted to disclose material facts in three supplemental registration statements. This covers roughly the period from October 1, 1939, to April 25, 1941. More particularly the Government charges that defendant's answer, author and journalist, to Item 11 was not a comprehensive statement of the nature of his business. The Government proceeds to show much work beyond the scope of defendant's statement. Much of this work reveals defendant as a very active propagandist. That, the Government charges, was a pursuit, an activity, which the defendant did not disclose either in general name or in modus operandi. Propaganda is a political activity; thus it is definitely under the coverage of the Act, as just construed, no matter for whom the work was done. The jury concluded that defendant had been engaged in at least some of the activities the Government tried to prove, that defendant had willfully failed to disclose them, and that they were material.