Passing the Buck
United States v. Peoni (1938)
Charge: Aiding and Abetting Possession of Counterfeit Money Jurisdiction: New York · Federal Heard on GUILTY or NOT?: 2 October 2026
Whether the man who first sold counterfeit bills is a party to a later possession by a stranger he never met, further down the chain of resale.
The facts
The Defendant sold counterfeit bills to a buyer. That buyer sold the same bills to a second man, who was arrested trying to pass them. The Government charged the Defendant not just with his own sale, but as an aider and abettor of the second man's later possession of the counterfeit money, treating the whole chain of resale as one continuing scheme the Defendant had set in motion. The Defendant had no direct contact with the second man and took no part in arranging the second sale.
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Citation: United States v. Peoni, 100 F.2d 401 (2d Cir. 1938)
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