Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers were opionated as Grocer Cooperman as to the probity of the defendants. But few talesmen had read about the case at all. A dozen peers whose lack of knowledge was adequate were soon chosen to try whether or not the Messrs. Fall and Sinclair conspired criminally to defraud the U. S. Besides the bricklayer, clerk, telephone instructress, electrician and tire repair man, the dozen included an auto salesman, a baker's delivery man, a leather worker, another clerk, a floorwalker, an ice salesman, a tailor. They settled themselves in their box and prepared to try to understand, weigh, decide...
...affairs could be of little interest to the public. The public, though, became interested later when they discovered that Warren T. McCray had been involved in a shady scheme to recover some of the wealth which he had undoubtedly lost. When he was convicted of using the mails to defraud, they were scandalized. When he was sentenced to ten years in Atlanta Prison, they were sorry for him. That...
...theory: "A consolidation of bankruptcy companies with dry wells would produce a solvent company with flowing wells." The experiment fleeced a few hundred credulous souls out of $4,000,000 and put Dr. Cook in the penitentiary in 1923 for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Since 1925 he has been residing at Leaven worth (Kan.), where he has become an astute needleworker, the editor of th? prison magazine New Era, and an advocate of breeding a race of runts to do the world's work...
Three days later, the twelve jurors, with news in their weary eyes, returned to Judge John C. Knox's Federal courtroom in Manhattan. They had decided without much trouble that onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller was guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government. But 70* hours of argument and sleep under lock and key had failed to produce a verdict on onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, who was closely linked with the alien property fraud. The final vote of the jurors was eleven to one for conviction of Mr. Daugherty...
...Again, Republican Senators James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson personally besought the President to pardon onetime Indiana Governor Warren T. McCray, who is serving a ten-year term in Atlanta Penitentiary for using the mails to defraud (TIME...