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Word: coutrakon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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Most of the suspicious checks carried Hodge's facsimile signature; many had apparently been cashed fraudulently; e.g., Springfield Businessman Clarence J. Reuter pointed out that a $10,385 auditor's check supposedly signed by him was incorrectly endorsed "J. C. Reuter." Moreover, said George P. Coutrakon, state's attorney for Sangamon County (county seat: Springfield), many of the checks in question had been cashed in "suspicious circumstances" at Chicago's Southmoor Bank & Trust Co., which, as a state bank, was under Auditor Hodge's jurisdiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hodge-Podge | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

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