Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, is approaching the end of the egregious Veterans' Bureau scandal. Charles R. Forbes, former director of the Bureau, and J. W. Thompson, a contractor, are on trial for conspiracy to defraud the Gov- ernment in connection with the letting of contracts for veterans' hospitals. The testimony in large part was noisome if not nauseous; but it is important in that it will probably result in a legat determination of the charges of corruption in the Veterans' Bureau under the Forbes regime...
...should be made punishable to send through the mails letters threatening life or property?an act now punishable only if such threats are used to defraud or for extortion...
...should be made a crime for a single individual to defraud or attempt to defraud the Government?it is now a crime to conspire to defraud the Government...
...bantering of accusation and counteraccusation, quietly in a Chicago Federal Court, Judge George A. Carpenter set the date for the trial of Charles R. Forbes, former Director of the Veterans' Bureau. Forbes was indicted with a Chicago contractor, John W. Thomson (TIME, Mar. 17), for conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with the making of contracts for the construction of Veterans' hospitals. Ex -Senator James Hamilton Lewis,* representing the defendants, asked that the trial be postponed until after the election because all Parties, for political purposes, were now demanding Forbes' conviction. Judge Carpenter answered that there...
...Terre Haute, it was reported that Warren T. McCray, onetime Governor of Indiana, who was sentenced to Atlanta penitentiary for using mails to defraud (TIME, May 12), is now functioning as a teacher in the prison Sunday School...