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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