U.S. District Court W.D. Washington Information charging William John Lewis and Donald Sylvester Murphy (Cooper impersonation fraud)
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-03:022-023 Document: U.S. District Court W.D. Washington Information charging William John Lewis and Donald Sylvester Murphy (Cooper impersonation fraud) Id: Cooper-Part-03:022-023 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-03%3A022-023 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 3 pp. 22–23, Other — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-03%3A022-023
STAN PITKIN United States Attorney
1012 United States Courthouse Seattle, Washington 98104
(206) 442-7970
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE
) 168-72[D] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) ) NO. Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) WILLIAM JOHN LEWIS, a/k/a, ) JACK LEWIS, and DONALD SYLVESTER ) INFORMATION MURPHY, ) ) Defendants. )
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The United States Attorney Charges that:
COUNT I
1. Beginning on or about February 1, 1972 and continuing thereafter through or about May 2, 1972, within the Western District of Washington, defendants WILLIAM JOHN LEWIS (also known as Jack Lewis) and DONALD SYLVESTER MURPHY devised and intended to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud Karl Payne Fleming, Newsweek Magazine, Platypus Publications, and other persons, businesses and corporations, by means of the following false and [fradulent] pretenses, representations and promises, well knowing the same would be and were false when made, for the purpose of obtaining money in excess of $5,000 by means thereof. 164 211-833
2. [illegible] was a part of said scheme and artifice to defraud that on or about February 1, 1972, WILLIAM JOHN LEWIS phoned Karl Fleming in Los Angeles, California; that defendant LEWIS identified himself as "Seth Thomas" and told Fleming that he could arrange an interview between Fleming and "D. B. Cooper."
3. It was further a part of said scheme and artifice to defraud that on or about February 13, 1972, defendant WILLIAM JOHN LEWIS made a reservation for Karl Fleming at the Swept Wing Inn, Seattle, Washington.
4. It was further a part of said scheme and artifice to defraud that on or about February 16, 1972, defendant WILLIAM JOHN LEWIS met with Fleming at the Swept Wing Inn, Seattle, Washington, and informed Fleming that an interview with "D. B. Cooper" would be arranged by WILLIAM JOHN LEWIS for the sum of [guess: $45,000], payable in three installments; and that defendant WILLIAM JOHN LEWIS knew said representation and promise would be and was false when made.
5. It was further a part of said scheme and artifice to defraud that on or about February 23, 1972, defendants WILLIAM JOHN LEWIS and DONALD SYLVESTER MURPHY met with Karl Fleming at the Edgewater Inn, Seattle, Washington, and represented that defendant MURPHY was "D. B. Cooper," well knowing said representation would be and was false when made.
6. It was further a part of said scheme and artifice to defraud that on or about February 23, 1972, defendants WILLIAM JOHN LEWIS and DONALD SYLVESTER MURPHY took the sum of $30,000 from Karl Fleming as payment for an interview with "D. B. Cooper" [text truncated at bottom of page]
Serials: 164 211-833, 168-72D