Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles R. Forbes, former Director of the Veterans' Bureau, convicted (TIME, March 10, 1924, ARMY & NAVY) of conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with the letting of contracts for hospitals, last week appeared to draw nearer to prison. He had been sentenced, with John W. Thompson, a contractor, to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, having reviewed the case, last week affirmed the lower court's decision. The convicted men may still appeal to the Supreme Court. It is alleged that they are very...
Warren T. McCray, Governor of Indiana until sentenced to prison for using the mails to defraud, after being for 15 months editor of the penitentiary magazine at Atlanta and supervisor of the prison print shop, was last week relieved because of high blood pressure and assigned to less wearing duties...
...indictment charged two Germans and two Swiss with conspiring and their companies with conspiring to defraud the Government, and added further that John T. King, former Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, received $50,000 for taking part in the conspiracy; that the late Jesse W. Smith (notorious from the Department of Justice and Veterans' Bureau investigations) received $25,000, and Col. Thomas W. Miller, former Alien Property Custodian, got $391,000 in Liberty bonds, for approving and securing completion of the plot. All these were indicted except John T. King, who it is said is needed as a witness...
...differing only slightly from it. It has a President, elected for four years; a Senate and a House of Representatives, elected for six and four years respectively. All electors must be of Negro blood and property owners. *Notorious Negro now confined at Atlanta Penitentiary for using the mails to defraud...
There was only one point on which he refused to talk-his alleged loan of $100,000 to onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Fall. His lawyers insisted that he not touch on that since he will soon be placed on trial for conspiracy to defraud the Government; and that his story of that loan, as told to the Senate Investigating Committee, will not be admissible as evidence, although another statement of the same facts to a third party would...