Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...November because of "poor health," was indicted by a Brooklyn federal grand jury. The charge: criminal evasion of income taxes. Bolich (rhymes with toe kick) was under fire last April from the House subcommittee investigating irregularities in the BIR (TIME, April 14). ¶Fred H. Altmeyer, 39, suspended deputy collector of internal revenue in Pittsburgh, was indicted by a federal grand jury for extorting and embezzling $4,142 from two taxpayers...
...told in detail how the Department of Justice reached out from Washington to interfere with a federal grand jury's investigation into tax-fraud cases. The investigation ultimately led to 31 indictments, including one against Harry Truman's old friend, James P. Finnegan of St. Louis, U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue (TIME, Oct. 22). Finnegan was convicted of misconduct in office, fined $10,000 and sentenced to two years...
...handling of tax cases. I discussed the matter with Mr. Drake Watson, then the United States attorney ... I called Attorney General J. Howard McGrath on the long-distance telephone and . . . told him that in my opinion there was pressing need for a thorough investigation of the Internal Revenue Collector's office and of the failure to prosecute tax evaders...
...Collector's Item. In Wichita, Kans., six-year-old Leonard Niedens yanked out one of his baby teeth, hid it in his ear, told the specialist who removed it: "I put it there to save it. I liked that tooth...
Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes, trigger-tempered art collector and self-made millionaire (Argyrol), who left the Barnes Foundation an art collection estimated at upwards of $20 million, also left a personal estate worth more than $2,000,000, according to an inventory filed last week...