Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Contentions. The Government declared that the $100,000 "loan" was a bribe, that Secretary Fall had fraudulently induced President Harding to give him authority to make the leases and contracts, that Fall and Doheny had conspired to defraud the Government. It demanded 1) cancellation of the leases and contracts, 2) repayment for all oil taken by the Doheny companies, or received by them for constructing oil tanks at Hawaii...
...Black Cross liner Booker T. Washington crept up New York harbor to its berth. This is one of the ships with which Marcus Garvey (now serving five years in Atlanta Penitentiary for using the mails to defraud) (TIME, Jan. 11, 1923; Feb. 16) and the Universal Negro Improvement Association planned to use in recolonizing Africa with U. S. Negroes...
...bringing of the trial in Washington, let it suffice to say that the jurisdiction over the alleged crime is legally in Washington; and that new evidence which had not previously been heard justified a new trial on entirely different grounds. The present charge is one of conspiracy to defraud the government, while the former one was the improper acceptance of fees while in public office. The action of the Department of Justice was entirely legal, and uninfluenced by persons outside the Department. The writer of your editorial has apparently forgotten an incident which took place early in this year...
...Unlike the Montana indictment, this one is on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. But the facts in both cases are similar...
...court because of the presence in the Grand Jury room of an official sten ographer to report the indictment proceedings. This point will be raised as the result of a writ of error in the case of George A. Storrs and others, charged with using the mails to defraud, Which was dismissed in the District Court of Utah because of the presence in the Grand Jury room of an official stenographer. Some state courts have held that official stenographers have a right to be present in the Grand Jury room while others have held that their presence invalidated an indictment...