Word: auditor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congressman (1949-52) Furcolo to win nomination as the party's candidate for governor, but nobody had expected a landslide. Furcolo, running strongly in nearly every precinct in the state, won going away with 357,409 votes, to only 131,875 for his primary opponent, able former State Auditor Thomas H. Buckley. In a comparatively light vote, Furcolo's plurality was the biggest a Democrat ever received in a contested gubernatorial primary in Massachusetts...
...Democrats, however, Austin's merits go beyond that. Their hope of unseating Governor William G. Stratton lies chiefly in splattering him (although he was not involved) with the scandal in which former Republican State Auditor Orville E. Hodge succeeded in looting the treasury of more than $1,000,000 (TIME, July 30 et ante). To do this they are in need of a fierce and able prosecutor. In small (5 ft. 41n.), stern-faced Judge Austin, who assisted in prosecuting some notable crime cases in his years as assistant state's attorney, they hope they have found their...
...Illinois all summer the hot winds of scandal have blown hard at the Republican state administration. The blast blew Orville E. Hodge (TIME, July 30 et ante) from his perch as Republican state auditor and landed him a 12-to-15-year sentence in the state penitentiary for stealing more than $1,000,000 from the treasury through a warrant (state check) cashing dodge. Democratic leaders joyfully looked forward to using the Hodge case in their campaign to defeat Republican Governor William G. Stratton. Then, suddenly, the wind changed...
...free-spending Orville Enoch Hodge, 51, state auditor since 1952 and a comer in Illinois Republican politics, erasure had begun a fortnight before. It began when the Chicago Daily News broke the story of high-echelon finagling in the auditor's office (TIME, July 23). Reported the News, and other papers that gleefully waded in: 1) more than $500,000 in warrants (state checks) was missing from the auditor's office, and 2) more than $200,000 in suspicious state checks-some of them made out to men who denied ever having seen them-had been cashed...
With this development, Orville Hodge caved. Quitting as state auditor, candidate for reelection, and delegate to the G.O.P. national convention, he reportedly told Governor Stratton: "I just don't know why I did it. I didn't need the money." Epping, his office manager, was fired. All week, as news reports put the total haul at more than $1,000,000, Hodge, Epping and Banker Hintz were questioned by county and federal attorneys. The result was a jurisdictional tangle between Springfield and the federals over who would get the first indictments...