United States v. James Milton Cotten and William Lowell Roberts

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• holding that a statute proscribing theft of government property applied extraterritori- ally, and that the “law certainly represents an exercise by the Government of its right to defend itself from obstructions and frauds”
• focusing discussion on extraterritorial application of substantive theft statute because “there can be no serious doubt as to the extraterritorial applicability of the conspiracy section”

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