Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mailed Airvia prospectuses which intimated that the company would earn $2,430,000 per year. In its first three weeks of operation it earned only $8,000. The flyers told the postal authorities, disclosed Promoter Montgomery's prison record (five years at Atlanta for using the mails to defraud...
...failed in Manhattan (TIME. July 22), the four partners appeared before this double court, pleaded guilty, were sentenced. James Rae Clarke, senior partner, assumed full responsibility for the crash. He was sentenced by the Federal Judge to eight years in the overcrowded Atlanta penitentiary for using the mails to defraud and for conspiracy. Philip L. Clarke, John R. Bouker and Hudson Clarke Jr. each received a sentence of one year, one day. The state judge imposed the same penalties but suspended sentence declaring that the Federal sentences served the cause of justice...
...that naval surgeons marveled to see how a pair of human eyes could improve in 48 hours. They questioned the candidate, soon confused him, discovered the deceit. Candidate Rupp and his employe were soon arrested, lodged in a police cell under $2,000 bond, charged with attempting to defraud the U. S. out of a $12,000 education at its Naval Academy...
...November 1927, Sinclair went on trial in Washington for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. in the leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. Secretly he hired a squad of 14 detectives from the agency of William J. Burns to "investigate" his jurors. Friend Day actually arranged for their employment and received their daily reports. Midway through the trial the government, through undercover men of its own, discovered Sinclair's method of shadowing justice. A mistrial was immediately declared...
General Manager Sells Floto Circus Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Mix was last week indicted by the Federal grand jury in Los Angeles, charged with trying to defraud the U. S. of $175,967.65 in income taxes. He, performing in Minneapolis, said time would prove him innocent.-ED. Brent & Canterbury Sirs: Seeing in TIME that the Archbishop of Canterbury was yachting on the luxurious Corsair with Multi-Millionaire Morgan, reminded me of the late Bishop Brent, of New York State, and a different scene. I was with Major General Henry C. Corbin on the Benguet road going from Baguio to Manila...