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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The conviction of Fall as a bribe-taker, the first conviction to be obtained by the U. S. on direct evidence of the naval oil scandals (1921-23), produced a strange courtroom scene. Defendant Fall, seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia, sat in a green Morris chair, wrapped in an automobile...
But not entirely "escaped" was Congressman Michaelson. The department of Justice sent an agent to trace the itinerary of the Michaelsonian junket. At Port au Prince, Haiti, the agent obtained affidavits from the police chief, customs officers, a night club proprietor. All easily recalled details of the memorable visit of...
That statement convicted Albert Bacon Fall, onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior, of bribery. It branded him as the first felon in a President's Cabinet in U. S. history. It made him liable to a three-year prison sentence, a $300,000 fine.* It changed the $100...
The facts on which Fall was tried were agreed on both sides. Fall and Doheny, gold prospectors together in the old West, had been friends for 43 years. Doheny had approached Fall, as Secretary of the Interior, for an oil lease. At the peak of negotiations-Nov. 30, 1921-he...
Lawyer Hogan, onetime Brooklyn urchin, now Washington's smartest, cockiest criminal attorney, had secured Oilman Doheny's acquittal on the conspiracy charge; had received, it was said, a million-dollar fee for his services. Now he was Fall's chief defender. His claims which the jury rejected...