Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Harding transferring control of the naval oil reserve to the Department of the Interior; 2) because it was executed without authority of law; 3) because it was made without advertisement or competitive bidding; 4) because Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sinclair "did combine, conspire and confederate" to defraud the Govern-ment in making it; 5) because Edwin Denby, the then Secretary of the Navy, "exercised no discretion," but signed the lease as a matter of form. The Court granted the temporary injunction. Joseph Strauss (Rear Admiral) and Albert E. Wates (Vice President of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Companies...
...Rumely had been in close association with pro-Germans. Employees of the Mail testified that Dr. Rumely had been pro-Ally and had not influenced their point of view in presenting the news. Finally, three months ago, he and his two attorneys were convicted on one count-conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government by concealing the German ownership of the Mail. The jury recommended mercy but-they were given sentences of a year and a day. An appeal to the Supreme Court failed...
...penalties for delinquency in tax returns without intent to defraud, and for negligence would also be materially lightened...
...Assistant Secretary of War from 1917 to 1920. He supervised the construction of training camps and engaged in the work of supplying the Army with arms, munitions and equipment. In January of this year he (with six of his associates) was suddenly and unexpectedly indicted for conspiracy to defraud the Government on contracts for construction of war camps. The charge declared that in the awarding of cost plus contracts Mr. Crowell had been interested in one of the companies which had done some of the work. Mr. Crowell pleaded not guilty and entered a vigorous denial of all the alleged...
...Provisional President of Africa, Marcus Garvey, convicted of using the mails to defraud in promotion of the Black Star Line, is in jail and appears likely to remain there for some time at least. Judge Mack of the Federal Court in New York gave him the maximum sentence-five years in jail and $1,000 fine. Mr. Garvey was also refused bail pending his appeal for a retrial...