Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imagination enough to be "universal." It is Marcus Garvey's great organization-great not only in originality, but perhaps also in charlatanism. Garvey, fired with a West Indian imagination, "kindled" the idea. Just at present, he is out on bail, following conviction for using the mails to defraud (TIME, June 11, 1923), in connection with selling stock in the Black Star Line-a steamship company, formed to carry Negroes back to Africa. The company's only significant maritime achievement was to take Garvey and some of his friends aboard a chartered vessel, to the West Indies and back...
...District of Columbia, the Government lost a case brought against a large number of men for alleged frauds in the sale of surplus lumber belonging to the Air Service. This was called the "Phillips Lumber Case," after one of the leading defendants. They were accused of conspiracy to defraud the Government of $1,500,000 by taking double commissions from the Government and from purchasers in the sale of surplus lumber. Since the criminal case has fallen through, it is expected that civil suits for the recovery of damages will be dropped...
...have never seen so many felonies committed by one individual. . . Here is a man who devised a scheme to defraud, and carried it on almost entirely by the use of the mails. He has testified that he wrote 2,500 letters, and, if so, he is guilty of violating the statutes 2,500 times. He is money under false pretenses. He has violated not only written laws but laws of his own conscience as well...
...which went to the wall. He was investigated by a grand jury and indicted for larceny, embezzlement, forgery, obtaining money under false pretenses and issuing false financial statements. Subsequently, the Post Office Department investigated him and he was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for using the mails to defraud...
...expedients. He admitted on the witness stand that he had signed the names of other people and of non-existent corporations to notes which he afterwards sold as valid obligations. The amount of these notes was about $1,000,000. He insisted, however, that he had no intent to defraud because he had indorsed the notes in his own name and was personally responsible for them...